Patrick Marber Quotes

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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 like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see…
• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
• I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
• 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…
• I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
• Thank God life ends—we'd never survive it. From Big Bang to weary shag, the history of the world. Our flesh is ferocious...our bodies will kill…
• A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all 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…
• 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…
• When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.
• 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…
• Everything is a version of something else.
• 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,…
• I love everything about you that hurts.
• Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

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