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So much TV is drawn out.
I'm a massive control freak.
I feel like my home is stage acting.
I feel liberated being around women who are liberated.
I think a lot of time, I'm just writing my worst fears.
I'll never get bored of seeing flawed women on the screen.
Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.
Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.
I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.
I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.
I think audiences can feel when they're being served a filler episode.
I always knew that saying the unsayable was going to be a powerful thing.
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.
I can't deny 'Fleabag''s a very personal piece, but it's not autobiographical.
There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.
People generally are just really nice to each other. You know, the good people.
There's something very polite about the British accents. It's sort of sanitizing.
Women know what they're doing all the time, and they're pretending that they don't.
I always want to go darker, and I'm always being advised to stay on the lighter side.
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.
You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.
I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.
I just find all that stuff incredibly funny. I love a fart. I'd do anything for a good poo story.
I wanted to give people that feeling of wanting to hug the TV and just admit that you're unhappy.
I suppose every time [something bad happens], I have that instinct to make that joke that distracts.
I have a real aversion to sentimentality, but I also really want to write about love and friendship.
Every time I see the rails of my photo shoots, it's like Dr. Seuss, or as if they've skinned Muppets.
It will always be relevant and always be inspiring to see somebody turning themselves into a warrior.
I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.
I think it helped that 'Fleabag' had such a dramatic arc to it, even though it was disguised as a comedy.
I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
You don't often see a cross section of female characters interacting with each other at the top of a chain.
Throughout a lot of my 20s, my sexual allure and power was one of the most important things about me, my currency.
I've been so obsessed with 'Game of Thrones,' and there's so much about nobility and duty that I think about a lot.
What's so useful about the British culture of politeness is the level of passive aggression is really fun to write.
I've always wanted to work for, like, "Assume your audience is cleverer than you," rather than the other way around.
I'm a huge fan of basically anything written about complicated, contradictory women. I'm drawn to them really quickly.
I had such a supportive family, and I think that affects your life in such a profound way; it fortifies you completely.
Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.
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 don't think there's an actor in the world who ever expects to get a call from the 'Star Wars' casting director - least of all me.
I am comfortable talking about sex scenes and stuff, but to me, when it's physically explicit, I do feel prudish and uncomfortable.
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.
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.
Wouldn't it be exciting if all women just went on strike? Just a woman's strike. Everything would fall apart pretty quickly then, wouldn't it?
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.
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 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?'