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Play 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.
- The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.
- When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
- Anyone can write five people trapped in a snowstorm. The question is how you get them into the snowstorm. It's hard to write a good…
- 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…
- 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…
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- The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...' — Isaac Asimov
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- Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of… — Saint Augustine
- I guess the toughest things in translations are word play, which can never be reproduced exactly. — Paul Auster
- I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter… — Dan Aykroyd
- I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him. — Jensen Ackles
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- I'd love to romance Aishwarya Rai. But I'm 58 now. So I have to play her father. — Amitabh Bachchan