David Mamet quote: "You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history."

What I value most in my friends is loyalty.
DAVID MAMET

I've been alienating my public since I was 20 years old. When 'American Buffalo' came ou...
DAVID MAMET

Always tell the truth -- it's the easiest thing to remember.
DAVID MAMET

The proclamation and repetition of first principles is a constant feature of life in our democracy. ...
DAVID MAMET

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dream life.
DAVID MAMET

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of cal...
DAVID MAMET

Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they hav...
DAVID MAMET

The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee c...
DAVID MAMET

People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they ...
DAVID MAMET

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of cou...
DAVID MAMET

A dramatic experience concerned with the mundane may inform but it cannot release; and one concerned...
DAVID MAMET

The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothin...
DAVID MAMET

The Oscars demonstrate the will of the people to control and judge those they have elected to stand ...
DAVID MAMET

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
DAVID MAMET

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demons...
DAVID MAMET

American football seems to resemble soccer in that one scores by putting the ball through the oppone...
DAVID MAMET

I didn't knowingly meet a conservative until, to my shame, I was 60 years old and sat down and s...
DAVID MAMET

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the med...
DAVID MAMET

Each culture has its own form of staged combat, evolved from its particular method of street fightin...
DAVID MAMET

A play is basically a long, formalistic polemic. You can write it without the poetry, and if you do,...
DAVID MAMET

I'm not an ascetic.
DAVID MAMET

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
DAVID MAMET

I love all insider memoirs. It doesn't matter whether it's truck-drivers or doctors. I think...
DAVID MAMET

When we leave the play saying how spectacular the sets or costumes were, or how interesting the idea...
DAVID MAMET

War is tragedy. The great war stories are tragedies. It's the failure of diplomacy. 'War and...
DAVID MAMET

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly. I get up early in the morning and ...
DAVID MAMET

I'm afraid of only two things: being lazy and being cowardly.
DAVID MAMET

A stage play is basically a form of uber-schizophrenia. You split yourself into two minds - one bein...
DAVID MAMET

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

In Chicago, we love our crooks!
DAVID MAMET

I used to think I'd like to be a fireman - in fact, I still would - and the only drawback I coul...
DAVID MAMET

It's only words...unless they're true.
DAVID MAMET

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more.
DAVID MAMET

The product of the artist has become less important than the fact of the artist. We wish to absorb t...
DAVID MAMET

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember.
DAVID MAMET

In a world we find terrifying, we ratify that which doesn't threaten us.
DAVID MAMET

Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember
DAVID MAMET

The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresis...
DAVID MAMET

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we&#...
DAVID MAMET

A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue.
DAVID MAMET

Roll back the clock, and every possession of every great country started with a crime.
DAVID MAMET

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

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be oppo...
DAVID MAMET

We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.
DAVID MAMET

Obama is a tyrant the same way FDR was a tyrant. He has a view of presidential power that states: th...
DAVID MAMET

Always tell the truth. It's the easiest thing to remember.
DAVID MAMET

I grew up in a tough neighborhood and we used to say you can get further with a kind word and a gun ...
DAVID MAMET

I look back upon my Liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-in...
DAVID MAMET

I look back on my liberal political beliefs with a sort of wonder - as another exercise in self-invo...
DAVID MAMET

I understand that computers, which I once believed to be but a hermaphrodite typewriter-cum-filing c...
DAVID MAMET

You know, young actors say all the time, 'Should I use my own life experience?' And my respo...
DAVID MAMET

Here's what happens in a play. You get involved in a situation where something is unbalanced. If...
DAVID MAMET

My dad was an immigrant kid and a Democrat and a Jew, and we didn't know any Republicans in our ...
DAVID MAMET

The so-called assault weapons ban is a hoax. It is a political appeal to the ignorant. The guns it s...
DAVID MAMET

The honest man might observe... that no one gets something for nothing; that politicians go in poor ...
DAVID MAMET

We must have a pie. Stress cannot exist in the presence of a pie.
DAVID MAMET

It's only words... unless they're true.
DAVID MAMET

I'm not saying Mike was like that in real life. Although he was and is.
DAVID MAMET

State and Main,
DAVID MAMET

I hate vacations. There's nothing to do.
DAVID MAMET

We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of cal...
DAVID MAMET

In a restaurant one is both observed and unobserved. Joy and sorrow can be displayed and observed "u...
DAVID MAMET

I like Bach. I like Randy Newman.
DAVID MAMET

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit
DAVID MAMET

One person may need (or want) more leisure, another more work; one more adventure, another more secu...
DAVID MAMET

My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line.
DAVID MAMET

There's nothing in the world more silent than the telephone the morning after everybody pans you...
DAVID MAMET

My dad was a labour lawyer, and the ideas that I grew up with - bad management, bad capitalism, robb...
DAVID MAMET

The main question in drama, the way I was taught, is always, 'What does the protagonist want?...
DAVID MAMET

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other ha...
DAVID MAMET

I love working on a typewriter - the rhythm, the sound; it's like playing the piano, which I do,...
DAVID MAMET

Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and y...
DAVID MAMET

I've always been more comfortable sinking while clutching a good theory than swimming with an ug...
DAVID MAMET

The Crucible.
DAVID MAMET

In the sixties, the Commune emerged as a riposte to the nuclear family. This was an autonomic re-cre...
DAVID MAMET

All drama is about lies. All drama is about something that’s hidden. A drama starts because a situ...
DAVID MAMET

The quality I most admire in a man is steadfastness.
DAVID MAMET

Writing a novel is an incredibly free experience. One puts one's self in a narrative mode. You c...
DAVID MAMET

A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to...
DAVID MAMET

Every reiteration of the idea that nothing matters debases the human spirit.
DAVID MAMET

There's no such thing as talent; you just have to work hard enough.
DAVID MAMET

The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.
DAVID MAMET

A lot of people in line at the grocery store think that they know me, but they don't.
ZOSIA MAMET

I haven't found it to be particularly enjoyable... ninety percent of the time when I go on dates...
ZOSIA MAMET

My mom was onstage when she was pregnant with me.
ZOSIA MAMET

I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
ZOSIA MAMET

I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
ZOSIA MAMET

With 'Girls,' it doesn't really feel like I'm doing TV specifically. It just feels l...
ZOSIA MAMET

All the characters on 'Girls' are growing and changing, which is how real people behave, esp...
ZOSIA MAMET

I grew up backstage and on movie sets, and I thought they were the most magical places on Earth.
ZOSIA MAMET

I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.
ZOSIA MAMET

I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?...
ZOSIA MAMET

I think any actor in their right mind is afraid of getting pigeonholed.
ZOSIA MAMET

I don't watch much television. My old TV agent used to always get mad at me because he'd sen...
ZOSIA MAMET

I don't know if I would call myself a religious human.
ZOSIA MAMET

I am a private human.
ZOSIA MAMET

I have quite a foul mouth.
ZOSIA MAMET

Give me an 18-hour day on set or in the theater, and I will be the happiest person alive.
ZOSIA MAMET

The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is jus...
ZOSIA MAMET

But my father was also the one who told me I needed to clean up my mouth or I'd never find a man...
ZOSIA MAMET

I'm a little bit of a weirdo - I'm kind of a loner, I didn't go to college, I spend a lo...
ZOSIA MAMET

I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's ...
ZOSIA MAMET

My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what ...
ZOSIA MAMET

Comedy arises out of necessity, because some things are so dark that you have to laugh about it.
ZOSIA MAMET

I have a ship's bed, which totally plays to my obsession of, if I were not an actress, I would b...
ZOSIA MAMET

I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out ...
ZOSIA MAMET

People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and...
ZOSIA MAMET

Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faste...
CLARA MAMET

I wrote and directed a movie called 'Two-Bit Waltz.'
CLARA MAMET

We've challenged every mayor in the state.
SAM MAMET

My biggest objection to Marxism has been the presumption that industry should exist at all. I think ...
DAVID DAVID KATZMAN

I gave a funny speech at my wife's birthday party, and I'm thinking, 'Hey, I've stil...
LARRY DAVID

The area where I grew up in Birmingham was very diverse - I was aware of my race but not overly awar...
DAVID HAREWOOD

Birmingham people are the salt of the earth, and I've carried that with me all around the world....
DAVID HAREWOOD

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to ...
DAVID COVERDALE

George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted abo...
DAVID LANGE

Stories hold conflict and contrast, highs and lows, life and death, and the human struggle and all k...
DAVID LYNCH

Studying consciousness tells us more about how the world is fundamentally strange. I think we have a...
DAVID CHALMERS

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.
DAVID HARE

The Doctor' is the kind of character - because the guest cast is changing all the time, there ar...
DAVID TENNANT

It's so warm now, and Thanksgiving came so early - is it just me, or does it not really feel lik...
DAVID LETTERMAN

Bilingualism lets you have your cake and eat it. The new language opens the doors to the best jobs i...
DAVID CRYSTAL

I can mention many moments that were unforgettable and revelatory. But the most single revelatory th...
DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

Being dyslexic, I was told that I was an idiot all the time.
DAVID BAILEY

Every man who is high up loves to think that he has done it all himself; and the wife smiles, and le...
DAVID BAILEY

The first half of the 20th century belongs to Picasso, and the second half is about photography. The...
DAVID BAILEY

I always go for simplicity.
DAVID BAILEY

I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

All I could do at school was paint and draw and that was the only time I ever passed any exam. It wa...
DAVID BAILEY

You can't really copy what I do because I don't do anything.
DAVID BAILEY

I hate being so nostalgic about the Sixties.
DAVID BAILEY

People want security in this insecure world.
DAVID BAILEY

I don't think my work does reflect my nationality - I don't like the idea of nationalism.
DAVID BAILEY

It's not about composition. It's the way you feel about how your objects should relate to ea...
DAVID BAILEY

Girls are more attractive to me than dresses.
DAVID BAILEY

Rockers are the nicest people to photograph. They have no inhibitions.
DAVID BAILEY

Being trendy is dangerous. I've never been trendy, which is why I've never really fallen out...
DAVID BAILEY

I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can p...
DAVID BAILEY

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
DAVID BAILEY

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other ...
DAVID BAILEY

The skull is nature's sculpture.
DAVID BAILEY

Anybody can be a great photographer if they zoom in enough on what they love.
DAVID BAILEY

Being handsome wasn't much of a burden. It worked for me.
DAVID BAILEY

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youth...
DAVID BOWIE

I had a wonderful childhood, which is tough because it's hard to adjust to a miserable adulthood...
LARRY DAVID

You would think that a rock star being married to a supermodel would be one of the greatest things i...
DAVID BOWIE

People use irony as a defense mechanism.
DAVID BYRNE

Sometimes it's a form of love just to talk to somebody that you have nothing in common with and ...
DAVID BYRNE

I certainly agree that putting everything into little genres is counterproductive. You're not go...
DAVID BYRNE

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?
DAVID BYRNE

I knew I wanted to have a doll of myself on the cover. I thought, I wanna see myself as a Ken doll.
DAVID BYRNE

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. ...
DAVID BYRNE

That's the thing about pictures: they seduce you.
DAVID BYRNE

Deep down, I know I have this intuition or instinct that a lot of creative people have, that their d...
DAVID BYRNE

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's rea...
DAVID BYRNE

My favorite time of day is to get up and eat leftovers from dinner, especially spicy food.
DAVID BYRNE

On a bike, being just slightly above pedestrian and car eye level, one gets a perfect view of the go...
DAVID BYRNE

I never listen to the radio unless I rent a car.
DAVID BYRNE

The arts don't exist in isolation.
DAVID BYRNE

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide ex...
DAVID BYRNE

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
DAVID BYRNE

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I'm riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown...
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling is a joy and faster than many other modes of transport, depending on the time of day. It cle...
DAVID BYRNE

You can know or not know how a car runs and still enjoy riding in a car.
DAVID BYRNE

You create a community with music, not just at concerts but by talking about it with your friends.
DAVID BYRNE

Cycling can be lonely, but in a good way. It gives you a moment to breathe and think, and get away f...
DAVID BYRNE

Everything's intentional. It's just filling in the dots.
DAVID BYRNE

I like time off. I'm not a workaholic.
DAVID THEWLIS

I've had an awful lot of good fortune.
DAVID CASSIDY

Every day is a blessing - not to get too schmaltzy, but, really, it is.
DAVID CASSIDY

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became s...
DAVID CASSIDY

There were times when I was a joke, but talent survives.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't be 24 again; you can't be new when you're 40 years old.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most people view success by the results, and I don't.
DAVID CASSIDY

I think of my career as something apart from myself.
DAVID CASSIDY

You know, many people who become famous and enjoy great success when they're young disappear aft...
DAVID CASSIDY

I wouldn't want to play anything bigger than 10,000 again. I think it's too much, and you lo...
DAVID CASSIDY

Let me tell you, 10,000 is an intimate room. Believe me. I want to be able to connect to everybody i...
DAVID CASSIDY

When you cut your life into a film - 90-some minutes of film - you end up taking snapshots and vigne...
DAVID CASSIDY

Until I really dealt with a lot of the demons in my life - the fear and self-doubt and unresolved is...
DAVID CASSIDY

I gave up my whole life to my career.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just getting your name in the papers and having people talk about you is not always a good thing.
DAVID CASSIDY

There's nothing wrong with becoming a role model, nothing wrong with inspiring people to become ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It's always nice to have people love you, but I'd just like to be judged fairly.
DAVID CASSIDY

It wasn't until later when people became aware of my writing that I would hear begrudgingly, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

If people respond to the songs, whether they love you or hate you, then you've really done your ...
DAVID CASSIDY

Anybody who carries the albatross of that teen-idol thing - well, people tend to look and say: '...
DAVID CASSIDY

I don't want to end up being some joke on a bad TV series.
DAVID CASSIDY

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.
DAVID CASSIDY

Just do me a favor. Don't call me 'former teen heartthrob,' okay? It's as if they we...
DAVID CASSIDY

I hitched up to Haight-Ashbury in the Summer of Love, you know? And I was very much politically alig...
DAVID CASSIDY

Contrary to public opinion and the image people have of me, I grew up in a very lower-middle-class, ...
DAVID CASSIDY

It was amazing for me growing up in the musical decade of the '60s. I saw The Beatles on televis...
DAVID CASSIDY

Doing musicals and theatrical productions, I never did any of my hits.
DAVID CASSIDY

I turned up to all my son's performances and baseball games because my father never did that for...
DAVID CASSIDY

I was very wary of repeating my father's behaviour and did everything not to act like he did.
DAVID CASSIDY

Most definitely, my dad was my biggest influence.
DAVID CASSIDY

My first five albums were triple-platinum, and I played a lot of concerts.
DAVID CASSIDY

The television and film business has never really been kind or compassionate, in general.
DAVID CASSIDY

It's amazing what happens to your body as you get a little older.
DAVID CASSIDY

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

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David Mamet

You can't write about history without writing about politics at some point. History is about movements of people. 'What is criminality and what is government' is a theme that runs through every history.

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