Patrick Marber quotes

When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years. (Patrick Marber)
Well, you just know, as a writer, I didn't really write one of the five best screenplays of the year. There were lots of brilliant screenplays; I was just one of the lucky ones who got nominated. View quote
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The trite answer is that everything is true but none of it happened. It is emotionally true, but the events, the plotting, the narrative, isn't true of my life, though I've experienced most of the emotions experienced by the characters in the play. View quote
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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. View quote
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I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion. View quote
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That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'-as if you had no choice. There's a moment, there's always a moment; I can do this, I can give in to this or I can resist it. I don't know when your moment was but I bet there was one. View quote
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I love everything about you that hurts. View quote
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Where is this love? I can't see it, I can't touch it. I can't feel it. I can hear it. I can hear some words, but I can't do anything with your easy words. View quote
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Everything is a version of something else. View quote
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I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. View quote
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Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it. (Patrick Marber)
When I'm on a train and see an empty pitch, it gives me a certain pleasure that I can't quite describe. It's to do with potential. View quote
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. View quote
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I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. View quote
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I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I started reading novels. I'll defend it to the hilt. When theatre is good it is fabulous. View quote
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I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see why they do what they do; sometimes they make some mistakes, but at heart I think they're decent. View quote
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Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do. View quote
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I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. View quote
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It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. View quote
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I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things. View quote
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I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. (Patrick Marber)
No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it's about rather more than that - or maybe it's not. Maybe that's exactly what it is about. View quote
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Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn't very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we'd play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years. View quote
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I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I've always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I've written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it's just part of the job. View quote
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Great comedy is always sadistic. View quote
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Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber - Image
Photo: The Tony Awards, CC BY 3.0
Occupation: English Comedian
Born: September 19, 1964
Quotes count: 46
Wikipedia: Patrick Marber

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