Quotes by Patrick Marber

About Patrick Marber:

Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter.
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Kane wondered if any man in her life had really noticed how beautiful she was.

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

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

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Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.

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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

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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.

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When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.

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

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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 com...

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

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I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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 al...

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

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But I think the thing I'm proud of about the film is that there aren't many films - either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films - that are like this; it's of its own times, and it's the film Mike Nichols wanted to make.

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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.

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Larry: She doesn't want to be happy. Dan: Everybody wants to be happy. Larry: Depressives don't. They want to be unhappy to confirm they're depressed. If they were happy they couldn't be depressed anymore. They'd have to go out into the world and liv...

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A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse.

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Author Bio

  • NamePatrick Marber
  • DescriptionEnglish comedian, actor and screenwriter
  • BornSeptember 19, 1964
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionComedian; Playwright; Film Director; Puppeteer; Actor; Screenwriter; Writer