Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Sausages are just funny. I don't know why. I can't explain it.

To me, most comedy is dark comedy.

I think there's something funny about people who laugh in the face of convention or surprise us morally.

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.

Nothing brings me more joy than when people love what I do.

I'm just constantly on the verge of bursting into tears with joy.

I think if you've got people on your side, if you've got people really laughing, you are able to make them cry.

There's nothing that makes me cry and laugh more than stories about friendship.

Our family dinner table was my first platform - every dinner was all about sharing stories and jokes and points of view.

You're allowed to bore your friends and family, but to bore your audience is unforgivable.

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 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.