David Mamet Quotes

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
David Mamet

Loyalty, Friends, Value

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.
David Mamet

Government, Three, Media

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
David Mamet

Truth, Remember, Tell

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want.
David Mamet

Mean, May, Designed

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
David Mamet

Good, Able, Film

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
David Mamet

Nothing, Human, Idea

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.
David Mamet

Gay, Person, Acceptance

The basis of drama is... the struggle of the hero towards a specific goal at the end of which he realises that what kept him from it was, in the lesser drama, civilisation and, in the great drama, the discovery of something that he did not set out to discover but which can be seen retrospectively as inevitable.
David Mamet

Great, End, Struggle

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

Lazy, Two, Afraid

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

Peace, Death, Question

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb this person. We wish to devour someone who has experienced the tragic. In our society this person is much more important than anything he might create.
David Mamet

Society, Important, Someone

The surprise is half the battle. Many things are half the battle, losing is half the battle. Let's think about what's the whole battle.
David Mamet

Battle, Whole, Losing

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the ideas, it means we had a bad time.
David Mamet

Time, Bad, Saying

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the opponent's goal; but football, truly is about land. The Settlers want to move the line of scrimmage Westward, the Native Americans want to move it East.
David Mamet

Football, Through, Goal

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

Art, Same, Difference

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

Human, Impossible, Culture

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

Fighting, Culture, Street

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

Drama, Films, Original

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
David Mamet

Money, Real, Thought

I don't really have a social life.
David Mamet

I don't think there's any information to be gotten from television.
David Mamet

Television, Gotten

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun than just a kind word.
David Mamet

Tough, Used, Gun

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
David Mamet

Hate, Nothing, Vacations

I know very well what it is to be out of work and to be cheated by employers and I know what it is to be an employer.
David Mamet

Work, Cheated, Employer

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-involvement - rewarding myself for some superiority I could not logically describe.
David Mamet

Political, Another, Liberal

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Dramatist

Born: November 30, 1947

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