Patrick Marber Quotes

Patrick Marber
English Writer
Born: Sep 19, 1964
Life Me Myself Think Write You
Related authors: Arthur C. Clarke D. H. Lawrence Douglas Adams Gilbert K. Chesterton John Ruskin Ricky Gervais Rudyard Kipling Thomas Paine
My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them. Patrick Marber
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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
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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
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. Patrick Marber
Art Theatre First How Encountered Any Level
It doesn't really feel like it's got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it's Mike's film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. Patrick Marber
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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. Patrick Marber
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that. Patrick Marber
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But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong. Patrick Marber
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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
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I dispute that 'Closer' is about betrayal. Betrayal is one of the elements. Patrick Marber
About Betrayal Closer Elements Dispute
Great comedy is always sadistic. Patrick Marber
Great Comedy Sadistic Always
My whole life has a Jewish flavour. Patrick Marber
Life Whole Jewish
I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second. Patrick Marber
Myself First Think Englishman Second Jew
I have made a decision that in future, I will only take on movies that have a better than 75 per cent chance of being made, and that's not easy. Patrick Marber
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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
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Enough people like me. Enough to let me sleep at night. Patrick Marber
Me People Enough Enough People Like Night Sleep
I have the comedian's fear of bottles flying. I've never been bottled off, but I have had things thrown at me. Bag of crisps. And there's still a part of me, when I sit in an audience, that thinks people are going to start heckling the play. Patrick Marber
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If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back. Patrick Marber
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I'd been to the Comedy Store, and I loved the terror of it and the way the best comedians could control the crowd. What confidence that would give you, if you could somehow survive. Patrick Marber
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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. Patrick Marber
Me Pleasure See Potential Gives Empty Train Pitch Quite Certain Describe
Oh, I would love to be in Don Juan's shoes for a weekend. Not that I was ever handsome enough to be a Don Juan. Patrick Marber
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When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie. Patrick Marber
Write Like Felt Zombie
Most of what I write is comedy. Patrick Marber
Comedy Write Most

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