David Mamet Quotes & Sayings (Page 7)

“I'm greedy and ambitious like everybody else.”

“I'm not an ascetic.”

“I've always been fascinated by the picaresque.”

“It's only words... unless they're true.”

“People only speak to get something.”

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

“The essence of jiu-jitsu is philosophy.”

“We respond to a drama to that extent to which it corresponds to our dreamlife.”

“When I started out I was a failed actor.”

“The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.”