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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
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David Mamet
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
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Chicago
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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If You can't tell it to me in one sentence, they can't put it in TV Guide.
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Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody 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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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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You wanna know how to get Capone? They pull a knife, you pull a gun. He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send one of his to the morgue. That's the Chicago way! And that's how you get Capone.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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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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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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