David Mamet Quotes About Habits

Quotes about: Habits

• Culture exists and evolves to relegate to habit categories of interactions the constant conscious reference to which would make human interaction impossible.

  David Mamet

  Culture, Impossible, Habit

  David Mamet (2011). “The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture”, p.14, Penguin

• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

  David Mamet

  Fashion, Class, Tragedy

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

• 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

  People, What If, Way

  "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 08, 2011.

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