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David Mamet Inspirational Quotes (146)

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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can’t do one of those three things, you ain’t going to get any money.
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The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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The terror and beauty of the dream come from the connection of previously unrelated mundanities of life.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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People only speak to get something.
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The purpose of technique is to free the unconscious. If you follow the rules ploddingly, they will allow your unconscious to be free.
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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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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.
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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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The pain of losing is diverting. So is the thrill of winning. Winning, however, is lonelier, as those you've won money from are not likely to commiserate with you. Winning takes getting used to.
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There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans your play. It won't ring from room service your mother won't be calling you. If the phone has not rung by 8 in the morning, you're dead.
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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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The secret knowledge is there's nobody home but us chickens. The Constitution was written by a bunch of regular guys who tried to get together and thrash out a contract under which they could get together that would keep people together.
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Encounter: Doubt, Shame, Humiliation. It will finally be worth it. Acting is more about courage than anything else.
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Storytelling is like sex. We all do it naturally. Some of us are better at it than others.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders the Arabs would like to kill them all.
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A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
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Opportunity may knock, but it seldom nags.
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