Mamet Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Mamet
Mamet Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Mamet quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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'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
When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.
— Clara Mamet
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
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so I'm lucky I'm in it at all.
— Elle Macpherson
My parents have always been very supportive. I didn't go to school because my home was my school.
— Clara Mamet
Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
— Zosia Mamet
I am a private human.
— Zosia 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
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— David Mamet
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
— 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
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
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
— 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
Every fear hides a wish.
— David Mamet
Where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
— David Mamet
I want to make, like, 8,000 movies.
— Clara 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 quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
— 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
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
My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.
— Zosia 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
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
— David Mamet
The problem play is a melodrama cleansed of invention.
— David Mamet
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
— David Mamet
I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'
— Clara 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
I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
— Zosia 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
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
— 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
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
— David Mamet
Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
— Zosia Mamet
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.
— David Mamet
People only speak to get something.
— 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
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
Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
— David Mamet
It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
