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Fun is what you do for yourself. If somebody else does it, it's entertainment.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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More quotes by David Mamet
Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
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The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing that politicians go in poor and go out rich that the Government screws up everything it touches and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.
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The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?
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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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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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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
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You can't rely on the acting to tell the story.
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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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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
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In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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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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The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.
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People only speak to get something.
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Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.
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We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
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I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
David Mamet
People ask me, 'What do you do?' And I tell them I'm a writer, but always with the silent reservation, 'I am, of course, not really a writer. Hemingway was a writer.'
David Mamet
The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
David Mamet
