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Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
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Don't write stage directions. If it is not apparent what the character is trying to accomplish by saying the line, tell us how the character said it or whether or not she moved to the couch isn't going to aid the case.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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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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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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Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
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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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We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder ‘censorship,’ we call it ‘concern for commercial viability.
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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.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right to do so is guaranteed by the Constitution.
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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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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.
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When I started out I was a failed actor.
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All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
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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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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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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.
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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
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