David Mamet Quotes
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
-
People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
-
I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
-
You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of mission against impossible odds, but it really sort of died before I had a chance to really go anywhere with it, and then just doing the book was out of the question.
-
Do you follow American politics? They hate Obama. Hate him. He's a black man. That's what it is: it's racist. This guy is no bleeding-heart liberal. He's a centrist.
-
Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man.
-
In a way, I'm lucky that I was never classically trained and never went to a music college. I'm just from a normal working class family and happened to get obsessed with music as a teenager.
-
Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
-
The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
-
I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
-
If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
-
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
-
I like seeing advanced acrobatics, but I also like to see more than tumbling. It's important to combine the artistry of gymnastics with the tough skills. It's called artistic gymnastics. We should stand by the name.
-
My father is quite conservative and religious, and he's been wanting me to get married since I was 15.
-
When I was a kid, I wrote music - from the age of 11 until the age of 18.
-
Everything I say is true.
-
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
-
It is fascinating to watch legislators turn away from their usual corporate grips when they hear the growing thunder of the people.
-
Any performer is one person privately and then he's another person when he steps on the stage.
-
Most museums - with all their burdens to pay for exhibitions, administration, and security - really don't have any money really to acquire art, with few exceptions.
-
I'm a businessman and actor and I still make appearances.
-
I feel like the great filmmakers who have a true voice, yeah they take the notes, they understand the notes, but it's really about the notes underneath the notes. When you do a test screening and somebody says, 'Well, I didn't like the love story,' but it was probably just too long.
-
You get rich through luck. You get rich through crime. You get rich through fulfilling the needs of another. You can be as greedy as you like. If you can't do one of those three things, you ain't going to get any money.
