Show business is and has always been a depraved carnival.
DAVID MAMET, True and False
Don't assume I'm dumb because I wear a suit and tie.
When you come into the theater, you have to be willing to say, "We're all here to undergo a communion, to find out what the hell is going on in this world." If you're not willing to say that, what you get is entertainment instead of art, and poor entertainment at that.
DAVID MAMET, Three Uses of the Knife
When the gods would make us mad, they answer our prayers.
DAVID MAMET, Speed-the-Plow
The poker player learns that sometimes both science and common sense are wrong; that the bumblebee can fly; that, perhaps, one should never trust an expert; that there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamt of by those with an academic bent.
DAVID MAMET, Writing in Restaurants
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish.
All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.
DAVID MAMET, Speed-the-Plow
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?
DAVID MAMET, True and False
No one enjoys being equal.
DAVID MAMET, Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
We live in oppressive times. We have, as a nation, become our own thought police; but instead of calling the process by which we limit our expression of dissent and wonder “censorship,” we call it “concern for commercial viability.”
DAVID MAMET, Writing in Restaurants
We all hope. It's what keeps us alive.
DAVID MAMET, Speed-the-Plow
All of us. All of us. We're doomed.
One can read all one wants, and spend eternities in front of a blackboard with a tutor, but one is not going to learn to swim until one gets in the water.
DAVID MAMET, True and False
Love. My golly, it sells diapers, don't it!
DAVID MAMET, Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
The avant-garde is to the left what jingoism is to the right. Both are a refuge in nonsense.
DAVID MAMET, Three Uses of the Knife
You don't know what life is. You know nothing.
DAVID MAMET, Goldberg Street: Short Plays and Monologues
The subject of drama is The Lie. At the end of the drama THE TRUTH -- which has been overlooked, disregarded, scorned, and denied -- prevails. And that is how we know the Drama is done.
DAVID MAMET, Three Uses of the Knife
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