360 Quotes by David Mamet

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

My tendency as an actor was to correct people, was to say, 'What if we tried it this way, what about if we tried that way?' That's terrible habit for an actor, but that's a good habit for director. So I became a director.

There is no such thing as character other than the habitual action, as Mr. Aristotle told us two thousand years ago.

I look back upon 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.

It is the objective of the protagonist that keeps us in our seats.

President Obama seems to understand the Constitution as a 'set of suggestions.'

Almost all movie scripts contain material that cannot be filmed.

Mixed martial arts was invented by Brazilians, whose families had been trained by the Japanese. Those Brazilians came to the U.S., where their invention was bought out, gussied up and presented to the world, which found it good.

The most charming of theories holds that someone other than Shakespeare wrote Shakespeare's plays -- that he was of too low a state, and of insufficient education. But where in the wide history of the world do we find art created by the excessively wealthy, powerful, or educated?