Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
People only speak to get something.
David Mamet
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
Actor
Author
Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
Playwright
Poet
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Theatrical Director
Writer
Chicago
Illinois
David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
Speak
Something
People
More quotes by David Mamet
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
David Mamet
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
David Mamet
My alma mater is the Chicago Public Library.
David Mamet
We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?' That's what drama is. It comes down to that. It's not about theme, it's not about ideas, it's not about setting, but what the protagonist wants.
David Mamet
I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I don't understand what this guy's talking about, but he has a great civility about him. Perhaps I better investigate this thing.'
David Mamet
If you find that a point cannot be made without narration, it is virtually certain that the point is unimportant to the story (which is to say, to the audience).
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
David Mamet
Every scene should be able to answer three questions: Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now?
David Mamet
I love Superman. I'm a big fan of anyone who can make his living in his underwear.
David Mamet
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?
David Mamet
There is a profound and ineradicable taint of antisemitism in the British.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
David Mamet
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
David Mamet
The audience requires not information but drama.
David Mamet
The great movie can be as free of being a record of the progress of the protagonist as is a dream.
David Mamet
When I started out I was a failed actor.
David Mamet
