David Mamet Quotes About Acceptance, Money, Life, World, Politics

David Mamet Quotes:

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

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

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

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

Being among my people is a delight. We Jews live among ourselves. I love it.
David Mamet

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we’re less likely to try to use a dramatic forum to warp people’s political views.
David Mamet

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

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

Here’s what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If nothing’s unbalanced, there’s no reason to have a play. If Hamlet comes home from school, and his dad’s not dead and asks him if he’s had a good time, it’s boring. But if something’s unbalanced, it must be returned to order.
David Mamet

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

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

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

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

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing cabinet, offer the cyber literate increased ability to communicate. I do not think this is altogether a bad thing, however it may appear on the surface.
David Mamet

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

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

I’m afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and go to work. I love to write.
David Mamet

I’m greedy and ambitious like everybody else.
David Mamet

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn’t threaten us.
David Mamet

In practice we, in the world, must do business with each other.
David Mamet

It’s only words… unless they’re true.
David Mamet

It’s upsetting to be a man in our society.
David Mamet

I’ve always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ugly fact.
David Mamet

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