Patrick Marber Quotes

• 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

  Reading, School, Play

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• 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

  Stupid, Expression, Giving

  Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

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• Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

  Patrick Marber

  Art, Theatre, Levels

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• 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 us...our bones will outlive us.

  Patrick Marber

  Thank God, Bangs, World

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

  Patrick Marber

  Drug, Way, Reason

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• 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 love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

  Patrick Marber

  Love, Men, Age

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• Everything is a version of something else.

  Patrick Marber

  Versions

  Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.63, Grove Press

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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

  Uncles, Mistake, Heart

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Patrick Marber

  Couple, Play, Collapse

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• 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

  Easy, Feels, I Can

  Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.110, Grove Press

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• Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.

  Patrick Marber

  Goodbye, Love You, Way

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• I like the varying rhythm of being a writer that you have a period of being in complete isolation where it's just you and the book and your screenplay and no-one can read it.

  Patrick Marber

  Book, Isolation, Periods

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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• What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.

  Patrick Marber

  Lying, Trying, World

  Patrick Marber (2004). “Plays 1: Dealer's choice ; After Miss Julie ; Closer”, A&C Black

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• I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.

  Patrick Marber

  Thinking, Order, Tragedy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

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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.

  Patrick Marber

  New York, Mean, Play

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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

  Character, Play, Always Trying

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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

  Patrick Marber

  Lying, Want, Telling The Truth

  "Closer". www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now.

  Patrick Marber

  Goodbye, Love You, I Don't Love You Anymore

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• I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely.

  Patrick Marber

  Thinking, Deceiving

  Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.78, Grove Press

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• Lying is the most fun a girl can have without taking her clothes off. But it's better if you do.

  Patrick Marber

  Girl, Fun, Lying

  Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.73, Grove Press

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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

  Writing, Years, Lucky

  "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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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

  Love Life, Years, Umpires

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• I love everything about you that hurts.

  Patrick Marber

  Hurt

  Patrick Marber (1999). “Closer”, p.70, Grove Press

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• 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

  Writing, Character, Play

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

  Patrick Marber

  Stupid, Believe, Choices

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