60 Dope Quotes From David Mamet | Status Free Download
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
— David Mamet
What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
— David Mamet
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.
— David Mamet
War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and Peace,' 'A Farewell to Arms,' 'For Whom the Bell Tolls.' Those are some of the greatest tragedies.
— David Mamet
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
— David Mamet
I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do, too.
— David Mamet
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost.
— David Mamet
I love the British.
— David Mamet
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
— David Mamet
The Israelis would like to live in peace within their borders; the Arabs would like to kill them all.
— David Mamet
My definition of a 'friend' is, coming from Chicago, someone who says, 'Yeah, sure. You know what? Let's talk about what we can talk about. Let's help each other out. Your politics are none of my business.'
— David Mamet
People only speak to get something.
— David Mamet
Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people's political views.
— David Mamet
When I started out I was a failed actor.
— David Mamet
My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.
— 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
It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.
— David Mamet
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have.
— David Mamet
I don't really have a social life.
— David Mamet
American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
— David Mamet
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.
— David Mamet
A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do, you may have a pretty good play. We know this because we see plays in translation. Not many people speak Norwegian or Danish or whatever guys like Ibsen spoke, or Russian - yet we understand Chekhov and the others.
— David Mamet
I won't ever do e-mail.
— David Mamet
I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
— David Mamet
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
— 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
A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
— David Mamet
A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
— David Mamet
Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.
— David Mamet
Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
— David Mamet
It's only words... unless they're true.
— David Mamet
Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
— David Mamet
I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
— David Mamet
A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one being the protagonist and the other being the antagonist. The playwright also splits himself into two other minds: the mind of the writer and the mind of the audience.
— David Mamet
President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'
— David Mamet
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.
— David Mamet
Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
— David Mamet
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.
— David Mamet
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer.
— David Mamet
I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
— David Mamet
It's upsetting to be a man in our society.
— David Mamet
The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
— 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
Our job, as writers is to do our jobs.
— David Mamet
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.
— David Mamet
People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
— David Mamet
Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: the government is in control of the country, and the president is in charge of the government. He's taken an imperial view of the presidency.
— David Mamet
I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
— 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
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one.
— David Mamet
Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing's unbalanced, there's no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad's not dead and asks him if he's had a good time, it's boring. But if something's unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
— David Mamet
The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.
— David Mamet
I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
— David Mamet
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
— David Mamet
It's hard for a Jew of my generation, an American Jew, who is philo-Zionistic, not to romanticize Israel.
— David Mamet
You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
— David Mamet
I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
— 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
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
— David Mamet
We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
— David Mamet
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