Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Explore popular quotes and sayings by an English actress Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Last updated on November 21, 2024.
It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.
People are always trying to be on top. And not always with a macabre agenda, but I think that people are desperately trying to remain in control, rather than being honest.
I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
The main relationship in the whole series was the one between the camera and Fleabag. I had to convince myself that whoever was watching on the other side of the camera was instantly complicit with Fleabag and instantly a friend of hers.
When an audience is laughing with a character, they make themselves so vulnerable, and they open up. They expose their heart the moment they're laughing, because they're relaxed and they're disarmed.
So much TV is drawn out.
I'd been waiting to turn thirty my whole life. For some reason, when I was eleven, I was like, 'I know thirty's going to be good. Get through those twenties!'
Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.
Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
I really desperately want to write and direct my own movie.
I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
I'm a massive control freak.
I think it's part of human nature, that we want to achieve. It's definitely a kind of cosmopolitan nature, wanting to achieve in the fast lane.
As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl - how to be a good, pretty girl - from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we're told that well-behaved girls won't change the world or ever make a splash.
The element of surprise is the most important thing and what keeps me interested in writing. I can feel it if I've written that predictable or boring line, and I will carry that around with me all day.
If you hear somebody say something absolutely horrendous about their own life, in quite a flippant, offbeat kind of way, when you meet people clearly trying to be strong and brave, the ones who are really good at it are the ones who break my heart the most.
If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.
No one would touch me with a barge pole as an actress. It hit hard. I thought, 'What am I doing? This is a stupid idea!' It's like throwing yourself into a massive pond, and you feel like you're going to drown so quickly.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
The #MeToo and Time's Up movements have been a roar on behalf of women, and the voices are genuinely empowered now. I really feel that.
I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.
I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
Whenever I get stuck on something, I'm like, 'What would I do if I wasn't afraid? What would I write if I wasn't afraid? What would I say in this situation if I wasn't afraid?'
I think it's important that culture is this ongoing thing that needs to be nurtured, because there is no such thing as a quick, arty fix.
Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.
I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
I'm obsessed with audiences and obsessed with the journey that an audience goes on.
I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.
We're just so self-conscious. However much we try not to be, on some level, especially as a woman and an actress, you have so much pressure when it comes your hair and the bags under your eyes and your skin.
I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.
I change my mind every five minutes. I'm very brutal with my own process. I throw everything away very quickly, and then I have to go out and rummage through the rubbish in the middle of the night to try to find a bit I'd written a week ago.
I don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.
I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
'Transparent' was huge for me when I first saw it. I felt that, from an authorial point of view, no one was trying to sell characters to us, you know? It's the idea of not having to adore these characters and want to cuddle them; you just have to be into them and their psychology and be compelled by them.
I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.
The joy and the pain for me is about tightroping between being a cynic and being a romantic - the tug between barely believing in anything and hoping for everything.
Fleabag knows men and women are equal and should be treated as such, but what she's confused about - and what I was confused about - was the idea that wanting bigger boobs doesn't mean you don't want equal rights.
Having full faith that you can write something completely insane, and your actress will ground it and make it feel real, is a very liberating feeling.
After the play of 'Fleabag,' we had conversations with different channels and with film companies about whether 'Fleabag' should be a half-hour sitcom, an hourlong, serialized drama, or a film. And I knew that it couldn't be a drama because I wanted to hide the drama - that had to be the surprise. I knew it had to be comedy.
Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.
I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.
I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
This world of 'Star Wars' is just so accepting and beautiful that the idea a droid and a human are trying to waddle their way into a relationship is something that's celebrated.
Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.
I don't think the challenge is asking an audience to like a character; it's inviting them to try and understand them... then making that journey entertaining and worth their while. It's a classic trick, but it's human, and it allows characters to have more depth.
I suppose the cult of the strong woman character on TV has probably been misinterpreted in so many different ways, meaning that a woman can't be emotionally complicated or want things or can't be weak in moments.
To me, most comedy is dark comedy.
I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.
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