David Mamet Quotes

That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.

David Mamet

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• I've worked with a lot of really great actors, but it's not very often that you all bond so easily.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Great
  • You
  • Bond

• It's very difficult switching over from one character to another.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Character
  • Difficult
  • Over

• It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Impossible
  • Conversation

• I'm forever writing, forever looking for something to direct or produce, and always on the hunt for a great role.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Forever

• It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Time
  • Imagination

• I don't really live like a musician myself. I think music is just something that I do, but I'd like to be doing lots of other things. I like to cure all kinds of illness.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Live
  • Myself

• I measure everything, because I always think that if I've spent so much time making sure this recipe was exactly the way I want it, why would I want to throw things into a pot?

  

  Ina Garten
  • Time
  • Why
  • Think

• When people say perhaps it’s cause they’re lying. Either they don’t believe the thing they’re saying, or they do believe it only they don’t want to admit they do.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • People
  • Believe

• I have heard it asserted that the inadequate sanctions already applied have not achieved their object. At no time, and under no circumstances could sanctions that were intentionally inadequate, intentionally badly applied, stop an aggressor. This is not a case of the impossibility of stopping an aggressor but of the refusal to stop an aggressor.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Time
  • Stop

• He will punish all the evil deeds of men, although they have not been prohibited by a prophet, if common sense warns against them, as e.g., injustice and violence. ...it is distinctly added that he who does a good thing without being commanded, receives nevertheless his reward. The same principle is expressed in all the sayings of our Sages.

  

  Maimonides
  • Good
  • Men
  • Evil

• No prisoner's dilemma here. Over the long term, symbiosis is more useful than parasitism. More fun, too. Ask any mitochondria.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long
  • Fun

• Nil igitur mors est ad nos neque pertinet hilum,quandoquidem natura animi mortalis habetur.

  

  Lucretius

• We seldom stop to think that we are still creatures of the sea, able to leave it only because, from birth to death, we wear the water-filled space suits of our skins.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • Death
  • Stop
  • Space

• We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

  

  Aesop
  • Sorry
  • Wishes

• Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

  

  John Adams
  • Great
  • Society
  • Words

• Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity - by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles...

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Character
  • Universe
  • Path

• I have always felt that the best security for civilisation is the dwelling, and that upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends more than anything else the improvement of mankind. Such dwellings are the nursery of all domestic virtues, and without a becoming home the exercise of those virtues is impossible.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Improvement

• Our strategy is to destroy the enemy from within, to conquer him through himself.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Enemy
  • Destroy
  • Strategy

• I am also one of those persons who were transformed, who grew out of the Soviet system and transformed myself into the new Russia.

  

  Vagit Alekperov
  • System
  • Russia
  • Soviet

• I did record a bunch of stuff, but the thing that usually stops me from doing that is that I'm a terrible singer. I made a bunch of instrumental music, and it feels really good, but just as a singer, I'm not good.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Good
  • Music
  • Me

• There are a lot of great recording artists, like Jack White and Jack Johnson, who stay confined inside a very small box, but I'm more like Bon Iver, who recorded an album with programmed drums, and the next record was totally organic. I get that.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Great
  • Small

• That's fucked. That's fucked. You don't look at the fucking percentage. You look at the gross.

  

  David Mamet