Patrick Marber Quotes

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine. Like, if Jerry Seinfeld wasn't funny, you'd want to punch him in the face; he'd just seem like a whiner to you. But the fact is that he's funny.

Nothing's funnier to me than laughing at myself.

Half of me is this wacked-out comedienne who will do anything for a buck and a laugh. Well, at least for a laugh. But the other half is a lot darker, sadder and more pensive. It's the dark side that feeds the outrageousness and allows it to surface. I think that's true for anyone with comic flair.

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people - that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature.

I think comedy has to be very fearless, or it just gets bland.

I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

With comedy I can search for the profound.

Comedians, we're just people who whine. But we happen to be funny when we whine.

There are different kinds of humor, some is sarcastic, some introspective. Introspective fit my personality better.

Being an outsider helps breed comedy.

I'm too self-serious for a comedy.

You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.

'The Ugly Truth' isn't trying to change the world with strong political opinions; it's just trying to entertain you with thoughts and ideas from my crazy mind!

I think the humor, when applied in the right amount, only serves to intensify the other emotions in a given song; it highlights them, makes them stand out.

I think I'm funnier in my writing than in person.

If written with enough care and thoughtfulness, a joke can make you laugh at a belief you hold dear.

When I'm writing a lyric, things can only get so serious before they start becoming humorous.

Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian.

By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

Humor is the mistress of tears.

In order to be able to write a good joke, you have to find the truth.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.