David Mamet Quotes

I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

David Mamet

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• The economy has become seriously unbalanced. Its growth has not been driven by investment or by overcoming Britain's long-standing weaknesses in investment and productivity, particularly skills. Instead, there has been a binge of debt-financed consumer spending.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Long
  • Growth
  • Overcoming

• I don't spend a lot of money on clothes, which is weird because I am a fashion model, but when it comes to the new collections coming out, I am just praying designers send it to me for free.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Money
  • Fashion
  • Model

• I like being involved with projects that are not only entertaining but are also thought provoking. Either that, or jobs that keep a roof over my head. A mixture of both is always nice.

  

  Tanc Sade
  • Nice
  • Like
  • Thought

• My creative partner is a writer, and he's got an executive producing credit on this film. We've made three films together and I would never underestimate the impact of a writer.

  

  Taylor Hackford
  • Together
  • Creative
  • Partner

• When I race in Australia or Korea or Japan I know it will be a big change for me because Ferrari fans are worldwide.

  

  Fernando Alonso
  • Change
  • Me
  • Race

• I was not a silly kid or outgoing. In fact, I suffered from quite a bit of anxiety. I used to have panic attacks when I was a teenager, really incapacitating moments, because I had some phobias.

  

  Dane Cook
  • Moments
  • Teenager
  • Anxiety

• The game of football is something I dearly love, and there's nothing else I'd rather be doing.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Love
  • Game
  • Football

• Each time you do a film you gain a lot of experience and build a visual resume where people get to know who you are.

  

  Pam Grier
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• I know that Donald Trump is a smart man.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Man
  • Know
  • Smart

• There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Great
  • Flying
  • Direction

• She had a penetrating sort of laugh. Rather like a train going into a tunnel.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse
  • She
  • Laugh
  • Train

• Indian food is a luxury on tour.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Food
  • Luxury
  • Tour

• Yeah, they let me do whatever I wanted to.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • Me
  • Wanted
  • Whatever

• Lady Gaga? She's cool! She works really hard. When we would have our dance rehearsals, she wasn't the singer that was like, 'Oh, I'll just stand in front.' She wanted to learn everything - she was doing the dance moves. She's a good dancer.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Singer
  • Dancer
  • Lady Gaga

• Think of how many mistakes you made at 22 years old. Like, I made a million.

  

  Daniel Cudmore
  • Think
  • Mistakes
  • Old

• What second love could she Olympias make out of her ruined first love? The second love that most women make out of their first love for husbands grows from a mutual and tacit sadness in both husband and wife that he is only in rare moments the man both would like him to be.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Women
  • She
  • Wife

• If ignorance is bliss, then knock the smile off my face.

  

  Zack de la Rocha Rage Against the Machine
  • Smile
  • Ignorance

• You know the way there are two kinds of actors - the De Niro kind who's always De Niro, and then somebody like Daniel Day-Lewis, who transforms himself eerily? Well, I aim to be the Daniel Day-Lewis kind of writer. I don't have a house style.

  

  Emma Donoghue
  • House
  • Style

• And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.

  

  Newt Gingrich
  • American
  • America
  • Black

• Yes, I'm going to be the President of the United States. You know why? You think you can get chicks by being in the movies? You can really get chicks by being the President.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • Why
  • Movie
  • President

• The average political poem - especially the kind that wears this label all too proudly - is both dull and full of brow-beating triteness.

  

  Andre Naffis-Sahely
  • Political
  • Poem
  • Triteness

• I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth.

  

  David Mamet