I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I could see was coming back to the firehouse, after a day of fighting fires, and still having to put in an eight-hour day writing. David Mamet backcomeday share on social
Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fighting and cleaned up for presentation as a spectacle, e.g. savate, Cornish wrestling, karate, kung-fu. David Mamet cleancombatcornish Change image and share on social
I'm not the guy to ask about politics. I'm a gag writer. David Mamet gagguypolitic Change image and share on social
I was fortunate enough to have a rambling youth. David Mamet fortunaterambleyouth Change image and share on social
They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. David Mamet experiencegenerationkabbalah Change image and share on social
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime. David Mamet backclockcountry Change image and share on social
I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think everybody likes to go backstage, find out what people think and what they talk about and what specialised job they have. David Mamet backstagedoctordriver share on social
Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. David Mamet affordcapacitycost Change image and share on social
It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard. David Mamet goodhardplot Change image and share on social
My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our group. So I grew up Democratic. My dad was a labor lawyer - a very hardworking guy, a one-horse labor lawyer - and then I went to hippie college and lived in the bubble. David Mamet bubblecollegedad share on social
