David Mamet Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Any form of art is political if you make it that way.
-
If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land, water and other resources, not to mention reduce animal suffering, we must celebrate Earth Day every day - at every meal.
-
Weakness is something we don't like to admit we have. We hold it against people, until we experience it, and then we feel more compassion for it.
-
I'm not really interested in promoting 'Olive' as a series about depression or mental illness.
-
There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
-
Actually, my mom doesn't let me touch any of my money out of my bank. She says she is going to keep it there until I am 18, and I don't think anyone can touch that. No money has been taken out of there.
-
You reach a point where you don't work for money.
-
I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
-
Well, my wife, Cathy Gillespie, worked for Joe Barton, who was running for Congress in 1984.
-
I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
-
Most of us are not real eager to grow, myself included. We try to be happy by staying in the status quo. But if we're not willing to be honest with ourselves about what we feel, we don't evolve.
-
We're not looking at banning all weapons.
-
Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
-
It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.
-
I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.
-
Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning.
-
I travel a lot, so when I arrive in a city, I like to go to good local bookshops and make a selection based on how I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. The book I pick usually seems to have a definite karmic connection!
-
Phoebe Wolkind Ephron cracked wise like Dorothy Parker and looked like Katharine Hepburn.
-
Although I started off as a child artist, I left acting in between, as I felt that I was missing the fun of school days. But a little later, I became keen on acting again and started going for auditions.
-
My grandmother died when my mother was just 11 years old, and consequently, my mother never learned how to cook particularly well.
-
The greatest purveyor of violence in the world : My own Government, I can not be Silent.
-
We can ask ourselves why we invent God, and then, ten minutes later, we invent Satan - why? Because we need him; there's something fascinating about the other side of the coin.
-
Solange's new album, 'A Seat at the Table', is so many things at once: an antidote to hate, a celebration of blackness, an expression of the right to feel it all. After a move to Louisiana and period of self-reflection, the artist joined forces with a range of collaborators to put her new discoveries to music.
-
I hate the computer. I hate their spell-check. I won't ever do e-mail.
