Quotes by : David Mamet

Kraus asks the question of Freudian analysis: What would be enough? At what point would talking about....

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

In the meantime: (1) be direct; (2) remember that, being smarter than men, women respond to courtesy....

Conservatives believe in smaller government and in the power of the electorate. So I think that we're....

What is our life: (Pause.) it’s looking forward or it’s looking back. And that’s our life. That’s....

Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.

Put. That coffee. Down. Coffee's for closers only.

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

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

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