David Mamet Thoughts
Best 40+ David Mamet Messages, Quotes, and Images
Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.
The greater the intellect, the more ease in its misdirection.
To find beauty in the sad, hope in the midst of loss, and dignity in failure is great poetic art.
People only speak to get something.
Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.
As long as the protagonist wants something, the audience will want something.
All rhetorical questions are accusations.
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
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The things you get fired for when you’re young are the same things that you get lifetime achievement awards for when you’re old.
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier and more fun to hear what someone has to say.
Having sex is like playing bridge. If you don't have a good partner, you'd better have a good hand.
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.