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?’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
I’d go so far as to say I was bullied into writing, but sometimes you need that. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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!’ Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
What’s so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
