Patrick Marber
Patrick Marber
Patrick Albert Crispin Marber is an English comedian, playwright, director, puppeteer, actor, and screenwriter...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth19 September 1964
love-life years umpires
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.
love men age
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.
character play answers
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.
stupid believe choices
When I look back I can't believe I was so stupid as to direct Dealer's Choice.
optimistic men thinking
I'm a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic.
nice thinking years
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.
tendencies depressive vigilant
I'm constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency.
lying want telling-the-truth
I don't want to lie. I can't tell the truth. So it's over.
lying trying world
What's so great about the truth? Try lying for a change, it's the currency of the world.
thinking order tragedy
I think a tragedy is something where the natural order of things is completely interrupted and doesn't right itself.
stupid expression giving
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.
uncles mistake heart
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.
writing years lucky
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.
book isolation periods
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.