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Actor Quotes by David Mamet
- It is the writer’s job to make the play interesting. It is the actor’s job to make the performance truthful.
- You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my response is, 'What choice do you have?'
- At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, 'When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will…
- When I started out I was a failed actor.
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