"Always when I directed the play, I was always trying to cast people not who were necessarily like the characters, but people who I felt had the essential component that the character had, some kind of soul for it."

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Source : "Closer - Patrick Marber Q&A" compiled by Jack Foley, www.indielondon.co.uk.

Patrick Marber

#Character Quotes #Play Quotes #People Quotes

“Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law.”
“Agitation gives birth to creation.”
“Principles focusing on equality and fairness, those are principles that we can't let go of.”
“Call it not vain: they do not err Who say that when the poet dies Mute Nature mourns her worshipper, And celebrates his obsequies.”
“He loved me. He'd loved me as long as he he'd known me! I hadn't loved him as long perhaps, but now I loved him equally well, or better. I loved his laugh, his handwriting, his steady gaze, his honorableness, his freckles, his appreciation of my jokes, his hands, his determination that I should know the worst of him. And, most of all, shameful though it might be, I loved his love for me.”
“"My aim is to institute perpetual adoration," spoke St. Maximilian Maria Kolbe, Franciscan priest and founder of the Knights of the Immaculata. For he said that this is "the most important activity," and "if half of the Brothers would work, and the other half pray, this would not require too much."”
“There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men.”
“I do not wish to be shut up in a corral. All agency Indians I have seen are worthless. They are neither red warriors nor white farmers. They are neither wolf nor dog.”

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