Patrick Marber Quotes

I don't love you anymore. Goodbye.

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.

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

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.

Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I love everything about you that hurts.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Everything is a version of something else.

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.

We pimp our precious lives to the infernal gnashing babble - Follow me! Friend me! Like me! But don't ever know me.

I know who you are. I love you. I love everything about you that hurts.

DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.

Men want a girl who looks like a boy. They want to protect her but she must be a survivor. And she must come...like a train...but with...elegance.