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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
— David Mamet
It's not a lie. It's a gift for fiction.
— David Mamet
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
— David Mamet
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
— David Mamet
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
— David Mamet
We're all put to the test ... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
— David Mamet
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
— David Mamet
Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film 'Spartan.'
— Rebecca Pidgeon
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
— David Mamet
Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
— David Mamet
Accepted nowhere, belonging nowhere, The Human Ant is forced to roam the world, half-ant, half-cow.
— David Mamet
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
— David Mamet
The first amendment ensures not that speech will be fair, but that it will be free. It cannot be both.
— David Mamet
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
— David Mamet
Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
— David Mamet
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
— David Mamet
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
— David Mamet
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
— David Mamet
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— David Mamet
For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.
— David Mamet
My first acting class was taught by a little known playwright, David Mamet, who then cast me in my first play, opposite John Malkovich.
— John Mahoney
I learned a long time ago from David Mamet to wipe your feet at the door, get it out on stage and then go about your life.
— Patti LuPone
How was her crumbcake?oh.. from the store ...
... — David Mamet
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
— David Mamet
They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.
— David Mamet
People may or may not say what they mean ... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
— David Mamet
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
— David Mamet
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
— David Mamet
All rhetorical questions are accusations.
— David Mamet
I don't really have a social life.
— David Mamet
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
— David Mamet
Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
— David Mamet
IF YOU PRETEND THE CHARACTERS CANT SPEAK, AND WRITE A SILENT MOVIE, YOU WILL BE WRITING GREAT DRAMA.
— David Mamet
The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
— David Mamet
It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
— David Mamet
The leaf of the camomile, parboiled in water, conduces to calm. And yet I do not worship it.
— David Mamet
Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
— David Mamet
Get into the scene late; get out of the scene early.
— David Mamet
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
— David Mamet
You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
— David Mamet
For the record, if you're not a stage actor, climbing onto Broadway and tackling something like David Mamet is not an easy thing to do.
— Jeremy Piven
I love the British.
— David Mamet
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
— David Mamet
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
— David Mamet
Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
— David Mamet
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
— David Mamet
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
— David Mamet
Every fear hides a wish.
— David Mamet
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
— David Mamet
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
— David Mamet
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
What is our life: (Pause.) it's looking forward or it's looking back. And that's our life. That's it. Where is the moment?
— David Mamet
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
— David Mamet
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
— David Mamet
When I started out I was a failed actor.
— David Mamet
You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.
— David Mamet
I won't ever do e-mail.
— David Mamet
People only speak to get something.
— David Mamet
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
— David Mamet
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
— David Mamet
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
— David Mamet
I'm not an ascetic.
— David Mamet
