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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American. ↗

— David Mamet

#because #entitled #get #i #opinions

I've always been fascinated by the picaresque. ↗

— David Mamet

#been #fascinated #i

If you're writing an opinion piece, it's your job to write your opinion. If, on the other hand, you wrote a novel, as Virginia Woolf tells us, it would be inappropriate if you let your novel be influenced by your political opinions. ↗

— David Mamet

#inappropriate #influenced #job #novel #opinion

In my family, in the days prior to television, we liked to while away the evenings by making ourselves miserable, solely based on our ability to speak the language viciously. ↗

— David Mamet

#away #based #days #evenings #family

Liberalism is a religion. Its tenets cannot be proved, its capacity for waste and destruction demonstrated. But it affords a feeling of spiritual rectitude at little or no cost. ↗

— David Mamet

#cannot #capacity #cost #demonstrated #destruction

Movies were never an art form, they were entertainment. It just evolved into an art form from there, and it's still evolving in different ways. ↗

— David Mamet

#art form #different #different ways #entertainment #evolved

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. ↗

— David Mamet

#actor #became #correct #director #good

They say you can't study Kabbalah until you are at least 40 years old. You know why? You have to have experienced at least one generation making the same mistakes as the previous one. ↗

— David Mamet

#generation #know #least #making #mistakes

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry. ↗

— David Mamet

#branches #citizenry #failed #government #mass

Regardless of how me or this man right here or anybody else in this business get, when we walk on an airplane in first-class looking like this, we're gonna get searched. ↗

— Method Man

#anybody #business #else #first-class #get