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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
Actor
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Film Director
Film Producer
Novelist
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Poet
Screenwriter
Television Producer
Theatrical Director
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Chicago
Illinois
David Alen Mamet
David Alan Mamet
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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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We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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Invent nothing, deny nothing, speak up, stand up, stay out of school.
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I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
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Every fear hides a wish.
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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).
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It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
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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.
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Before you can steal fire from the Gods you gotta be able to get coffee for the director.
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I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.
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Make the audience wonder what's going on by putting them in the same position as the protagonist.
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I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
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I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
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Train yourself for a profession that does not exist.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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