David Mamet Quotes
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I didn't see Dr. No for a year, but I liked it when I saw it. It was a fun movie. I don't like the Bond movies now. I hate special effects.
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I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams.
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If you deal with information, you need the Internet. If you deal with money, you need to deal with blockchains.
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The right of every American to first-class citizenship is the most important issue of our time.
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I'll give it a shot. But I don't know that a year from now I'm going to be here. Nobody does.
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I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.
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Working with Jack Albertson was one of my great joys.
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I see my friends, my family, my cousins work all day long for very little money, and if I have this problem of not being able to wall on the streets, it's not a big deal.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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I like challenging parts, something I haven't done yet, something that scares me. There's just a feeling I get when I read a script that I love, I feel an attachment to it, a yearning to play that character.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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You want people to buy you as just about anything. So if they think that you're one thing, it's hard to slip into, you know, all these other things.
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I really have the American dream licked.
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In high school, I tried very hard to make everybody like me, which resulted in me being extremely unhappy and in a lot of pain. Therefore, the lesson I got from that was that I can't make everybody happy.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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I live for comedy. I've been doing it for such a long time. Comedy is hard in itself.
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It would be nice to say the rich people, the fancy people, all behaved like bastards and the poor slobs all came through like heroes. But as a matter of fact, sometimes the poor slobs behave like slobs and the great, noble, privileged characters come off very well, indeed.
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I really believe in melody.
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That whole rivalry with the fans is not something that I can pay attention to right now. This is my new home, and whatever I can do to help out Seattle is what I need to do.
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Don't do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
