Everything is a version of something else. Patrick Marber More Quotes by Patrick Marber More Quotes From 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 reading play school Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. Patrick Marber levels theatre art 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 bangs thank-god world 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 isolation periods book 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 i-can easy feels 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 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 love-you goodbye way I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. Patrick Marber tragedy order thinking A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. Patrick Marber collapse couple play What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world. Patrick Marber trying lying world I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. Patrick Marber telling-the-truth want lying 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 lucky writing years I love everything about you that hurts. Patrick Marber hurt 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 Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now. Patrick Marber i-dont-love-you-anymore love-you goodbye I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. Patrick Marber deceiving thinking I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. Patrick Marber i-dont-love-you-anymore love-you goodbye It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. Patrick Marber drug reason way 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 umpires years 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 age love men
