A biography for Phoebe Waller-Bridgehasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“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.”
“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.”
“The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.”
“I'd like to think Fleabag's honesty makes her heroic in spite of her actions.”
“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.”
“I don't think you can be a good actor and want to please, because so much about performing and acting is surprising people.”
“I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.”
“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 want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.”
“Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.”
“So much TV is drawn out.”
“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 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.”
“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.”