Patrick Marber famous quotes

04-05-2025

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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Reading #School #Play
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
-- Patrick Marber

#Art #Theatre #Firsts
A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.
-- Patrick Marber

#Couple #Play #Collapse
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

#Character #Play #People
I mean when the play was on in New York I was starting to get film offers coming through, and since the film's come out I get offered more than I used to, but it happens incrementally.
-- Patrick Marber

#New York #Mean #Play
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
-- Patrick Marber

#Tendencies #Depressive
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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Nice #Thinking #Years
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
-- Patrick Marber

#Optimistic #Men #Thinking
When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
-- Patrick Marber

#Stupid #Believe #Choices
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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Character #Play #Narrative
We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.
-- Patrick Marber

#Love #Men #Age
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

#Love Life #Years #Umpires
It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
-- Patrick Marber

#Drug #Way #Reason
Thank God life endsâ€”we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill us...our bones will outlive us.
-- Patrick Marber

#Thank God #World #Body
Everything is a version of something else.
-- Patrick Marber
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
-- Patrick Marber

#Easy #Feels
I love everything about you that hurts.
-- Patrick Marber

#Hurt
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
-- Patrick Marber

#Girl #Fun #Lying
I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.
-- Patrick Marber

#Goodbye #Love You
Alice: I donâ€™t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.
-- Patrick Marber

#Goodbye #Love You
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
-- Patrick Marber

#Thinking #Deceiving
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
-- Patrick Marber

#Lying #Want #Telling The Truth
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
-- Patrick Marber

#Lying #Trying #World
Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
-- Patrick Marber

#Goodbye #Love You #Way
That's the most stupid expression in the world. 'I fell in love'â€”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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Stupid #Expression #Giving
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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Uncles #Mistake #Heart
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.
-- Patrick Marber

#Writing #Years #Lucky

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