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"People may or may not say what they mean... but they always say something designed to get what they want." David Mamet

"Always tell the truth - it's the easiest thing to remember." David Mamet (Glengarry Glen Ross)

"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

"No one enjoys being equal" David Mamet 

"At the Neighborhood Playhouse School of Theatre, Sanford Meisner said, ‘When you go into the professional world, at a stock theatre somewhere, backstage, you will meet an older actor, someone who has been around awhile. He will tell you tales and anecdotes, about life in the theatre. He will speak to you about your performance and the performances of others, and he will generalize to you, based on his experience and his intuitions, about the laws of the stage. Ignore this man!" David Mamet

"The lessons of the stage… are often devastating and almost beyond bearing" David Mamet

“The action is what the character doing. That’s what the actor must do. Acting has absolutely nothing to do with emotion or feeling emotional. It has as little to do with emotion as playing a violin does. You have to study emotion. People don’t go to the theatre to hear the emotion; they go to hear the concerto. The emotions should take place in the audience. It just doesn’t have to be dealt with from the actor’s viewpoint.” David Mamet

“The great reviews are never good enough and the bad ones are devastating” David Mamet

"Skill and talent and the balls to arrive at your own conclusions" David Mamet (American Buffalo)

"In my racket, which is Show Business, you learn through watching and through doing, that’s it" David Mamet