I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. 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 readingplayschool Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level. Patrick Marber levelstheatreart 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 bangsthank-godworld 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 isolationperiodsbook 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-caneasyfeels 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 stupidexpressiongiving 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-yougoodbyeway I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself. Patrick Marber tragedyorderthinking A couple of flop plays, a death in the family, and it could all collapse. Patrick Marber collapsecoupleplay Everything is a version of something else. Patrick Marber versions What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world. Patrick Marber tryinglyingworld I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over. Patrick Marber telling-the-truthwantlying 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 luckywritingyears 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 girlfunlying Alice: I don’t love you anymore. Goodbye. Dan: Since when? Alice: Now. Just now. Patrick Marber i-dont-love-you-anymorelove-yougoodbye I think you owe me something for deceiving me so exquisitely. Patrick Marber deceivingthinking I don't love you anymore. Goodbye. Patrick Marber i-dont-love-you-anymorelove-yougoodbye It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way. Patrick Marber drugreasonway 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-lifeumpiresyears
