A biography for Patrick Marberhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“It's one of the reasons I don't do drugs. One sniff and I'd go all the way.”
“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.”
“DANWhat do you want?ALICETo be loved.DANThat simple?ALICE It's a big want.”
“My life is in dialogue with the plays that I write. The relationship I have with my plays is very, very intimate, and I dot my life through them.”
“My dialogue probably reveals the paranoia of the stand-up: if you're not quick and interesting, they will be gone.”
“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 meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.”
“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.”
“If I get anything out, producing anything, no matter whether it's good or not, I allow myself a little pat on the back.”
“I'm a Jew. I think of myself as a Jew first and Englishman second.”
“A part of me would like to see the money go to hospitals or housing, but I have benefited so greatly from funding for the National Theatre, which has been incredible.”
“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.”
“In 2012, I really thought, 'That's it. It's over. I've written what I can write.'”
“When I couldn't write, I felt like a zombie.”
“My whole life has a Jewish flavour.”
“A million years ago - some hairy bastard daubed a horse on the wall of his cave, he saw it, he drew it - well done! Flash forward: 'Hello, welcome to my vlog. Today I bought a plum”
“Great comedy is always sadistic.”
“I consider myself a Jewish writer, like all my heroes: Tom Stoppard, David Mamet, Philip Roth, Arthur Miller, Woody Allen.”
“Almost every play is 10, 15 minutes too long.”
“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 hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.”