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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You can go off in any direction - the past, the future, or go laterally, or include one's own beliefs. It's total freedom.
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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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We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
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Film is a collaborative business: bend over.
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Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
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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 great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
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Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
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The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
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It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
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The study of acting consists in the main of getting out of one’s own way, and in learning to deal with uncertainty and being comfortable being uncomfortable.
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I tend to write a lot, which I think is the secret to being prolific.
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People only speak to get something.
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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're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
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