It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.
— Phoebe Waller-Bridge
I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
The idea of losing your best friend, basically, is the worst thing in world.
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.
Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.
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.
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.
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.
To me, most comedy is dark comedy.
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.
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.
So much TV is drawn out.
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.
I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
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.
I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
