David Quotes

I'm not an urban person.

You should learn to say nothing that will cause you regret. You should not say what is not in your heart - or what is only in your heart for a moment. But you know this - silence is better.

I'm a hypocrite, of course, and I live with that, but I live.

The best gift you can give, besides your unconditional love, is to be strong for them when they are present and stronger for yourself when they are not!

We have developed a culture in which we eat with our taste buds, not our brains.

We sell only fresh fruit and vegetables. I sell no saturated fats or anything like that.

When I open my mouth, the room rings.

The only creature less fashionable in academia than the stereotypical 'dead white male,' is the dead white male on horseback.

What we need to do is follow the axiom of World War II which was 'Loose Lips Sink Ships' and the media has really got to follow that.

Modern American war is as easy to script as a B movie.

Terrorism, too, must be excised wherever it exists, which will take years, and which can't happen without the total commitment and the everyday involvement of the American people.

The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.

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Always stay in with the outs.

Few sports has as great a disparity between the time committed in practice and time actually spent in game or race conditions.

The majority don't like me before the curtain goes up, and I always have to win them.

The actual business of writing dialogue is not thought of as a craft.

One of the things I find about getting older is that I seem to get louder, more voluble; that I constantly have to walk around repressing my vitality.

I have a very, very good relationship with 10 percent of the audience. The only purpose of art is intimacy. That's the only point.

I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at.

I never used to kill characters, because I thought killing characters was cheating.

The orthodoxy of America is as rigid as that of Soviet Russia. There is one point of view allowed. If you start a conversation from another point of view, the words dry in your mouth.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

In those days, the early 1980s, TV and film were interchangeable.

Via Dolorosa is the only thing I have ever acted in my life, professionally, and Ill never act again.

The one thing that Via Dolorosa has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

As you write plays, you discover what you believe. And until you know what you believe, you can't write a play.

It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?"

One of the depressing things in England is the total orthodoxy: the law is handed down from Downing Street.

[David] Mamet's the writer I admire most but he's way off from when he tries to talk about what the moral appeal of liberal thought is. His heart is not in it.

Insofar as I'm good at directing, it's because I've become a writer.

I think the novel is the American form because people read it in private, and the only valuable things that happen in America happen in private life, because public life is a dead loss.

For all its problems, I found South Africa a beautiful country, interesting and inspiring.

Normally for work I will fly business class.

New York is vibrant, sexy, naughty, always surprising, and has great live music and great fashion.

Working at the National Theatre is just wonderful. There is no place like the South Bank on a summer's afternoon.

Forget fashion, dress for comfort and for ease of getting through security, so no hats, belts or unnecessary accessories.

Fatherhood is a joy. I feel very lucky to have a family. It gives you a perspective on things.

British people are surprised that I'm British!

I loved working with Mandy Patinkin, I have to say.

The realization that you can't predict the future -- and mold it -- could only come as a shock to an academic.

Are you sick and tired of these moralizing moralizers imposing their morality on the rest of us? I know I am.

Washington has a mysterious power to turn perfectly reasonable, wholesome, well-meaning human beings into equivocating crooked gasbags.

The Founding Fathers worried that some common impulse of passion might lead many to subvert the rights of the few. It's a rational fear, one that is played out endlessly.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

Twitter's popularity and usefulness are mysteries to me.

I believe that the war on drugs is a tragically misplaced use of resources - an immoral venture that produces far more suffering than it alleviates.

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging offensive ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society.

Obama acknowledges his overreach openly every time he argues that he intends to do the job of an obstinate Republican congress.

Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.