My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you’re not quick and interesting, they will be gone. Patrick Marber Read Quote
But I think the thing I’m proud of about the film is that there aren’t many films – either independent films or mainstream Hollywood films – that are like this; it’s of its own times, and it’s the film Mike Nichols wanted to make. Patrick Marber Read Quote
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. Patrick Marber Read Quote
It’s one of the reasons I don’t do drugs. One sniff and I’d go all the way. Patrick Marber Read Quote
It doesn’t really feel like it’s got anything to do with me. I mean, I know I wrote it, and all that and invented the characters and made it up, but it’s Mike’s film, so doing the press and stuff, it feels a little bit inauthentic. I was just one component of it. Patrick Marber Read Quote
I’m constantly having to be vigilant with a depressive tendency, an addictive tendency. Patrick Marber Read Quote
I’m a happily married man and I think to get married you have to be optimistic. Patrick Marber Read Quote
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. Patrick Marber Read Quote
