Top 105 Quotes by David Mamet

About David Mamet

These are some quotes by American author David Mamet Dramatist, who was born on November 30, 1947.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

Films have degenerated to their original operation as carnival amusement - they offer not drama but thrills.

David Mamet

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

Art and mass entertainment and propaganda, they can all be plotted on the same graph, but there is a difference.

David Mamet

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robber barons - when I applied this to my own life, I saw that we are all on both sides of the coin.

David Mamet

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor and go out rich; that the Government screws up everything it touches; and that the Will to Believe is best confined to the Religious Venue, as to practice it elsewhere is just too damned expensive.

David Mamet

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.

David Mamet

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

It's hard to write a good play because it's hard to structure a plot. If you can think of it off the top of your head, so can the audience.

David Mamet

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came out on Broadway, people would storm out and say, 'How dare he use that kind of language!' Of course I'm alienating the public! That's what they pay me for.

David Mamet

Listen, here's the thing about an English degree - if you sat somebody down and asked them to make a list of the writers they admire over the last hundred years, see how many of them got a degree in English.

David Mamet

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

David Mamet

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.

David Mamet

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