David Mamet Quotes
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Anybody that talks to this asshole is a fuckin' asshole.
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Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
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Get the chalk! Get the fucking chalk! Put me on the board! Put me on the Cadillac board! Williamson! Pick up the fucking chalk! Hey, Rick I closed em! I closed the cocksucker!
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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.
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Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
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Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.
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People only speak to get something.
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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.
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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.
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I point back in the living room, back to the sideboard. I didn't fucking know there was a sideboard there!
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There's something in me that just wants to create dialogue.
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A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
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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.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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A man should BE his job. You are FUCKED at yours.
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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.
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I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.
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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 back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing.
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You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.
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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.
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I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
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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.
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The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
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My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.