David Mamet Quotes

I should be soaring away with my head tilted slightly toward the gods, feeding on the caviar of Shakespeare. An actor must act.

Theater is a verb before it is a noun, an act before it is a place.

When I came to know theater, drama became valuable to me.

Having grown up around the theater, I've been moved by so many plays. Being a part of it, however small, is special.

I'm not a pyrotechnical director; I'm not good with all those innovative things. What I am interested in is how actors can touch the heads and hearts of an audience.

I love theater. I really want to go back to it.

Acting has been my passion from the minute I started. I was pretty young when I wanted to be a doctor, but when I started doing theater work as a freshman in high school, the first time I hit the stage I was like, If I can do this every day, life won't get any better!

I think acting came later in life when I went to college. I started out there. I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything. I guess I just really liked stories. I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives. Film and theater are very powerful storytelling mediums. You sit in a dark room and enter another world. I love that as a member of the audience, and I sort of wanted to get on the other side.

I love acting and I love it in all its different manifestations.

I like producing but acting is the quintessential me, and I'm probably better at that than I am at anything. My heart has always been in the movies.

Theatre is where my heart is. It's where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that's what I want to come back to.

I like to act. Every other aspect of show business I find uninteresting.

Movies are all about plot. Theater, even if it's story heavy, it's about ideas. Theater has to resonate in your heart in a way that movies don't.

I was a theater dork in high school and did all the plays. My theater teacher in high school, Janet Spahr, was absolutely incredible and mentored me throughout school. She taught me a lot about relying on my instincts.

I'm a total theater junkie - whether I'm working on a stage or sitting in a seat. I am always looking for a great play and a great part to do.

I played a lot of character parts in school.

From the time that I was in high school, my life really revolved around live theater, so it almost feels genetic.

I saw stars like Helen Hayes, Maurice Evans, Tallulah Bankhead and Cornelia Otis Skinner. It was enchanting. I knew that was the world I wanted to be in.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

I want to do theatre. I love theatre.

I was in the school plays, I did a lot of music. I carried on through university for short films and loads of plays.

I'm a consumer as well as a performer. Among my leisure-time activities is going to the theater. I'm very interested in that.

The theater was my first training ground. It taught me discipline, dedication and appreciation of hard work.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I will never leave the theater. My heart is there and I love being on stage eight times a week.