Patrick Marber

I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes,…

— Patrick Marber

“Have you ever seen a human heart? It looks like a fist, wrapped in blood! Go fuck yourself!”

— Patrick Marber

In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'

— Patrick Marber

I used to go with my parents and loved it, I was in school plays, and I started reading plays before I…

— Patrick Marber

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…

— Patrick Marber

“Dan: You've ruined my life. Anna: You'll get over it.”

— Patrick Marber

“I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.”

— Patrick Marber

Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night.

— Patrick Marber

It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that…

— Patrick Marber

“DAN What do you want? ALICE To be loved. DAN That simple? ALICE It's a big want.”

— Patrick Marber

I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.

— Patrick Marber

I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.

— Patrick Marber

When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.

— Patrick Marber

I think writing is a glorious and noble thing.

— Patrick Marber

But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

— Patrick Marber

I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just…

— Patrick Marber

It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.

— Patrick Marber

I don't try to be likeable. The worst thing people do is present versions of themselves to the world that aren't real.

— Patrick Marber

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…

— Patrick Marber

I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.

— Patrick Marber

“I am waiting for a man to come in here and fuck me sideways with a beautiful line like that”

— Patrick Marber

“She was...disarming.”

— Patrick Marber

“Deception is brutal, I'm not pretending otherwise.”

— Patrick Marber

“Anna: Since my opening last year...I'm disgusting. Larry: You're phenomenal. You're so clever.”

— Patrick Marber

I don't feel so alive if I'm not being creative.

— Patrick Marber