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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
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
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
Patrick Marber
I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.
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 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
I love everything about you that hurts.
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
Everything is a version of something else.
Patrick Marber
I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.
Patrick Marber
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
Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
Patrick Marber
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
Patrick Marber
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
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
Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.
Patrick Marber
I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.
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'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
No one ever wanted to see it as anything other than a boring play about a middle-aged man having a mid-life crisis. I think it's about rather more than that - or maybe it's not. Maybe that's exactly what it is about.
Patrick Marber
Back in my 20s, I was playing poker to avoid living. I wasn't very satisfied with life. I used to play in a big game in Archway. And we'd play as much as we possibly could and for as much money as we had, and that went on for a couple of years.
Patrick Marber
I was thinking in the cab on the way here that when I did press for the original production it felt like this was what I've always dreamt of - to be talking about myself, and about a play that I've written, and to be photographed. It was what I wanted. Now it's just part of the job.
Patrick Marber
Great comedy is always sadistic.
Patrick Marber
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