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When I started out I was a failed actor.
David Mamet
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David Mamet
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 30
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David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
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You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
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Always do things the least interesting way, the most blunt way, and you make a better movie. This is my experience.
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The correct unit of study is not the play it is the scene.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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People only speak to get something.
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The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
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What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
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Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
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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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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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Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.
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Many players will not improve because they cannot bear self-knowledge.
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In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously.
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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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The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
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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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The mind is a mill which can incessant turn, 'til its mere operation focus the stress inward and the stones grind themselves to dust.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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Luck, if there is such a thing, is either going to favor everyone equally or going to exhibit a preference for the prepared.
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