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David Mamet

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972 total appearances

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Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we did this thing as a play. We're doing it as a movie. And it's about a guy who is so compassionate that he ruins everything around him and everyone takes advantage of him. He ends up going to prison and he ends up getting his life changed by the boss con over there. And then some shit happens. Wow.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So we did this thing as a play. We're doing it as a movie. And it's about a guy who is so compassionate that he ruins everything around him and everyone takes advantage of him. He ends up going to prison and he ends up getting his life changed by the boss con over there. And then some shit happens. Wow.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Yeah.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Yeah.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Yeah.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Right. Well, but see, that's the trick, is the best thing in the world if you're rehearsing a play is tell everybody, show up learning your lines. Don't show up if you're not letter perfect. And most actors don't know that anymore because they've been badly trained and badly rehearsed.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Right. Well, but see, that's the trick, is the best thing in the world if you're rehearsing a play is tell everybody, show up learning your lines. Don't show up if you're not letter perfect. And most actors don't know that anymore because they've been badly trained and badly rehearsed.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Right. Well, but see, that's the trick, is the best thing in the world if you're rehearsing a play is tell everybody, show up learning your lines. Don't show up if you're not letter perfect. And most actors don't know that anymore because they've been badly trained and badly rehearsed.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

And they want to sit down and talk about where they went to school and what their character ate for lunch and all this bullshit. So shy up because he don't know any better, knows better than any of them. Just show up learning the fucking lines. Because if the actors show up in a rehearsal late day one, knowing their lines, what do you do? You block the play.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

And they want to sit down and talk about where they went to school and what their character ate for lunch and all this bullshit. So shy up because he don't know any better, knows better than any of them. Just show up learning the fucking lines. Because if the actors show up in a rehearsal late day one, knowing their lines, what do you do? You block the play.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

And they want to sit down and talk about where they went to school and what their character ate for lunch and all this bullshit. So shy up because he don't know any better, knows better than any of them. Just show up learning the fucking lines. Because if the actors show up in a rehearsal late day one, knowing their lines, what do you do? You block the play.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

It takes you three days and then you put it on.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

It takes you three days and then you put it on.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

It takes you three days and then you put it on.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Wait a second, but you're a stand-up comic. Yes. Wait a second, two guys go into a... Whorehouse. Whorehouse. Of course it's a whorehouse, but you're going to grow up on the bar. Well, you got to know your lines, right?

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Wait a second, but you're a stand-up comic. Yes. Wait a second, two guys go into a... Whorehouse. Whorehouse. Of course it's a whorehouse, but you're going to grow up on the bar. Well, you got to know your lines, right?

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

Wait a second, but you're a stand-up comic. Yes. Wait a second, two guys go into a... Whorehouse. Whorehouse. Of course it's a whorehouse, but you're going to grow up on the bar. Well, you got to know your lines, right?

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

If you're telling jokes, you got to know your lines.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

If you're telling jokes, you got to know your lines.

Bad Friends
A Penguin, A Nun, and an Ostrich w/ Shia Labeouf and David Mamet

If you're telling jokes, you got to know your lines.