Top 84 Quotes & Sayings by Phoebe Waller-Bridge - Page 2

However much people want to politicize every movement of a controversial woman in life or on the screen, we just have to keep being personal and truthful, or we will explode.

I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.

I think, a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable or having a really broken family.

I remember being a teenager and saying, 'Oh, I want to be an actress when I grow up.' And people saying, 'You need to be a good liar - are you a good liar?'

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction so that you can then use that reaction later for something else.

Every single performance of 'Fleabag,' I would learn so much from the audience reaction or how you could change it all the time, and I loved that sense that the performance is ever-growing and changing and could be affected by the audience.

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.

There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.

You have to make an audience feel like they can - and want to - change something about what they are watching. And that might be the thing that galvanises them in the end, that makes them come out of themselves and say, 'No! Don't do that!'

I'd go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that.

I know actors who say acting is acting, but I love the live-ness of an audience. I love feeling the energy of a room and allowing them to sort of teach you how to do it better.

The characters I didn't have actors in mind for, that was the scary moment. Because in any production, until you find the right person, you're constantly judging your writing or what it is that isn't working here or not clicking here, because you have amazing actors coming to read for it, and if something's not clicking, it can't be them because they're amazing actors. You're sort of completely doubting yourself.

I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.

I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.

I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.

I feel like my home is stage acting.

I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.

I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.

Actually, my worst nightmare is losing my best friend, as I imagine most people's are.

I'm constantly on the brink of tears in conversation about things that happen to people.

I just love any kind of language that can change the energy in a room. There are no limits for me, as long as it feels like it's being used in a particular way to garner or elicit a very particular reaction, so that you can then use that reaction later for something else. But when it's gratuitous language or physical exposure, then I get a bit like, "Oh! Put it away!"

I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears, of the idea of losing my mom or my best friend or doing something so terrible to somebody that's kind of deemed unforgivable, or having a really broken family.