David Mamet Quotes

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

David Mamet

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• I'd been going to the Louvre since 1951. I thought I knew Paris and the French, but I didn't really. You know how easy it is to make friends when you are traveling. People are curious about you, you are curious about them. But you never really make friends that way. After the Louvre, I discovered that I have friends now because I have enemies.

  

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  

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• I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.

  

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• I cry a lot, and I have no problem with that at all. Listening to your emotions is part of being alive.

  

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• The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.

  

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• Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.

  

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• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

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• You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you.

  

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• I enjoy having some boundaries to work within. That's why I generally don't like alternate tunings and stuff like that. I like the boundaries of regular tunings.

  

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• I always thought that there was something in hip-hop culture that was the misfit of all the musical styles, where they didn't really belong. They're kind of like, 'No, we're a real culture! We're not going anywhere, you can't get rid of us!' I really liked that there was a rebelliousness about it. I connected with that.

  

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• It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

  

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• I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.

  

  David Mamet
  • Lazy