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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame. Yeah, see, they die of shame. 'What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?' And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives. Thinking.
David Mamet
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
When I started out I was a failed actor.
David Mamet
People only speak to get something.
David Mamet
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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
A novel it's different. It's kind of exhilarating not to have to cut to the bone constantly. Oh, well I can go over here for a moment. I can say what I think the guy was thinking or what the day looked like or what the bird was doing. If you do that as a playwright, you're dead.
David Mamet
What we're trying to do is find two or more shots the juxtaposition of which will give us the idea.
David Mamet
Any time two characters are talking about a third, the scene is a crock of s***.
David Mamet
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
David Mamet
When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
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
You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
David Mamet
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.
David Mamet
Blasphemy and prayer are one. Both assert the existence of a superior power. The first, however, with conviction.
David Mamet
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
David Mamet
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
David Mamet
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
David Mamet
Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
David Mamet
