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I tend to write a lot, which I...

I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Having spent too many years in...

Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just ain't gonna go home. I decided early on that I wasn't going to go home. This is what I'll be doing until they put me in jail or in a coffin.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Cultivate a love of skill. Lea...

Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years of the history of our profession.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Characters on stage, like peop...

Characters on stage, like people in what we refer to as 'real life,' do not speak to reveal themselves. They do not speak to conceal themselves. They speak to get whatever it is that they want. It is the only reason they speak.

David Mamet 255 quotes

'Based on a true story' is a...

'Based on a true story' is a come-on, the aesthetic equivalent of 'no loan request refused.' For, at best, the creator has fashioned a film based on his understanding of, interpretation of, and reduction of the report of an actual occurrence.

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Art is about the spontaneous c...

Art is about the spontaneous connection of the artist to his own unconscious - about insight beyond reason. If his insight were reasonable, anyone could do it, but anyone cannot. Only few can, and they are called.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Every fear hides a wish....

Every fear hides a wish.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Opportunity may knock, but it ...

Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.

David Mamet 255 quotes

As long as the protagonist wan...

As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.

David Mamet 255 quotes

The job of the artist, is to s...

The job of the artist, is to say, wait a second, everything that we have thought is wrong. Let's re-examine it.

David Mamet 255 quotes

The audience perceives only wh...

The audience perceives only what the actor wants to do to the other actor.

David Mamet 255 quotes

People only speak to get somet...

People only speak to get something.

David Mamet 255 quotes

I won't ever do e-mail....

I won't ever do e-mail.

David Mamet 255 quotes

I'm entitled to my political o...

I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.

David Mamet 255 quotes

I'm greedy and ambitious like ...

I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.

David Mamet 255 quotes

In practice we, in the world, ...

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.

David Mamet 255 quotes

It's hard for a Jew of my gene...

It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.

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The quality I most admire in a...

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

David Mamet 255 quotes

My tendency as an actor was to...

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

David Mamet 255 quotes

There is a profound and inerad...

There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.

David Mamet 255 quotes

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