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If you're neurotic and you th...

If you're neurotic and you think, I'm not where I deserve to be or my mother didn't love me, or blah, blah, blah, that lie, that neurotic vision, takes over your life and you're plagued by it 'til it's cleansed. In a play, at the end of the play, the lie is revealed. [T]he better the play is, the more surprising and inevitable the lie is, as Aristotle told us. Plays are about lies.

David Mamet 255 quotes

What we're trying to do is fi...

What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.

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I tend to write a lot, which ...

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

David Mamet 255 quotes

A man stands alone at the pla...

A man stands alone at the plate. This is the time for what? For individual achievement. There he stands alone. But in the field, what? Part of a team.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Cultivate a love of skill. Le...

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.

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I pray you indulge me for a s...

I pray you indulge me for a space, for I am going to set out on a speech which may have some duration, but whose theme may be gleaned from its opening phrase: how dare you.

David Mamet 255 quotes

The purpose of technique is t...

The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.

David Mamet 255 quotes

Storytelling is like sex. We ...

Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.

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We cannot live in peace witho...

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.

David Mamet 255 quotes

For it is written that just a...

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

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I don't have any experience w...

I don't have any experience with film schools. I suspect that they're useless, because I've had experience with drama schools, and have found them to be useless.

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If the scene bores you when y...

If the scene bores you when you read it, rest assured it WILL bore the actors, and will then bore the audience, and we're all going to be back in the breadline.

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One person may need (or want) ...

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work one more adventure, another more security, and so on. It is this diversity that makes a country, indeed a state, a city, a church, or a family, healthy. 'One-size-fits-all,' and that size determined by the State has a name, and that name is 'slavery.'

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My greatest fear is that the a...

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.

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It's upsetting to be a man in ...

It's upsetting to be a man in our society.

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Liberalism is a religion. Its ...

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.

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In practice we, in the world, ...

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

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I understand that computers, w...

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.

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You know, young actors say all...

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'

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Old age and treachery will alw...

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....