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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
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
— David Mamet
For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
— T. R. Knight
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
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
I am a private human.
— Zosia Mamet
My Alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
— 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
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 idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
— 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
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
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
I studied acting in NYU's graduate program, in which we covered everything from Ibsen and Chekov to August Wilson and David Mamet.
— Andre Holland
Fox: It's lonely at the top.Gould: But it ain't crowded. — David Mamet
David Mamet's writing is pretty spectacular, obviously. I like the honesty of it; I like how funny it is and how sad it is.
— T. R. Knight
It's called a confidence game. Why? Because you give me your confidence? No. Because I give you mine.
— David Mamet
It is the writer's job to make the play interesting. It is the actor's job to make the performance truthful.
— David Mamet
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
— David Mamet
Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment.
— David Mamet
Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
— David Mamet
I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would be a pirate.
— Zosia Mamet
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
— David Mamet
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
— David Mamet
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
— 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
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
