All David Mamet Quotes
- Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible. Categories
- Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle,… Cleaned
- I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority… Another Exercise
- 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… All
- 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… Ability
- I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was… Coming
- If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf… Hand
- 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… Ability
- Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they… Admire
- 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… Art
- 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… Blandishment
- The individual is not only best qualified to provide his own personal defense, he is the only one qualified to do so: and his right… Best
- 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… Doe
- The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it supposedly banned have been illegal for… Address
- 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… Experienced
- 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,… Book
- We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it? All
- We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie. Cannot Exist
- Every reiteration of the idea that _nothing matters_ debases the human spirit. Every reiteration of the idea that there is no drama in modern life,… Cannot Remember
- We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit… Call
- I go out there. I'm out there every day. [Pause] There is nothing out there. Day
- Art is an expression of joy and awe. It is not an attempt to share one's virtues and accomplishments with the audience, but an act… Accomplishment
- Every scene should be able to answer three questions: "Who wants what from whom? What happens if they don't get it? Why now? Able
- Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment. Entertainment
- It’s not a lie. It’s a gift for fiction. Fiction