Cultivate a love of skill. Learn theatrical skills. They will give you continual pleasure, self-confidence, and link you to fifty thousand years… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago. — David Mamet Copy Share Image
The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
Having spent too many years in show business, the one thing I see that succeeds is persistence. It's the person who just… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and said, 'Wow, I… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I've been training in Jiu-jitsu for about six years and I'm very fortunate to live in that world. All the fighters hang… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm… — David Mamet Copy Share
Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. — David Mamet Copy Share
“We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of… — David Mamet Copy Share
Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills. — David Mamet Copy Share
The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand above them (much, perhaps, as in… — David Mamet Copy Share
I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is… — David Mamet Copy Share
Hitchcock denigrated American films, saying they were all 'pictures of people talking' - as, indeed, most of them are. — David Mamet Copy Share
“Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.” — David Mamet Copy Share
A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned essentially with the aesthetic politics of its creators… — David Mamet Copy Share
The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to… — David Mamet Copy Share
“As a youth I enjoyed — indeed, like most of my contemporaries, revered — the agitprop plays of Brecht, and his indictments of Capitalism.… — David Mamet Copy Share
