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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
There’s nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
There’s something very polite about the British accents. It’s sort of sanitizing. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
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. Phoebe Waller-Bridge Read Quote
