David Mamet Law Quotations

They say the definition of ambivalence is watching your mother-in-law drive over a cliff in your new Cadillac.

Welcome to Chicago. This town stinks like a whorehouse at low tide.

We cannot live in peace without Law. And though law cannot be perfect, it may be just if it is written in ignorance of the identity of the claimants and applied equally to all. Then it is a possession not only of the claimants but of the society, which may now base its actions upon a reasonable assumption of the law?s treatment.

You got an all-out prize fight, you wait 'til the fight's over, one guy's left standing and that's how you know who's won.

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!'