Disable ads!

19 quotes by Patrick Marber

Patrick Marber Born (1964-09-19) 19 September 1964 (age 50) Wimbledon, London, England Occupation Comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter Spouse(s) Debra Gillett (2002-present; 3 children) Patrick Albert Crispin Marber (born 19 September 1964) is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor and screenwriter.
Read full biography of Patrick Marber →

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

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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... →

0

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

0

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

0

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

0

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

0

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

0

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... →

0
Add a quote!
Background photo by Giuliana