From Spartan-
Val Kilmer: You need to set your motherfucker to “receive”.

From Heist:
Everybody needs money. That’s why they call it money.

This should be a great event. Too bad the ticket prices aren’t just a bit lower. BTW, I think Ricky Jay is the second coolest guy in America. The first? Richard Belzer.

from malice:
Alec Baldwin: Now, go ahead and read your Bible, Dennis, and you go to your church, and, with any luck, you might win the annual raffle, but if you’re looking for God, he was in operating room number two on November 17, and he doesn’t like to be second guessed. You ask me if I have a God complex. Let me tell you something: I am God.

Sean Connery’s line in The Untouchables:

Who would claim to be that, who was not?

“The Spanish Prisoner”:

Worry is like interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

I know Mamet shared the screenplay credit on this one and that it was based on a book by Larry Beinhart, butf rom ‘Wag the Dog,’ Willie Nelson (as Johnny Dean):

I was just on my way to get drunk.

“There’s an absolute morality? Maybe. And then what? If you think there is, go ahead, be that thing. Bad people go to hell? I don’t think so. If you think that, act that way. A hell exists on earth? Yes. I won’t live in it. That’s me.”

This one is my favorite!

Matt: I had never seen that before. Genius!

Ian: While a good Alec Baldwin quote, I don’t think David Mamet had anything to do with “Malice.” Got another one?

Everyone: These are great. Keep ‘em coming.

Dave Moss in GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS (referring the the cop):

“Anyone talks to this asshole’s a fucking asshole”

1. I have met David Mamet and have the best Mamet/Artie Lang story ever. If I win the tickets, it’s yours.

2. The line? From ‘Spartan’, totally underappreciated movie. It’s from when Val Kilmer goes to the rehab center and meets the female Secret Service agent:
“I’m five minutes from the bomb squad. If it’s ‘happy birthday’, let’s do it now.”

Damn. I’m going to go watch that now.

(I believe he did write a draft of ‘Malice’)

Cyril Takayama (Jimmy) In “Redbelt”

(after showing magic trick)”You ever seen that? I’m fucking fantastic! Somebody buy us a fucking drink”

Dustin Hoffman (Teach) In “American Buffalo”

“If I had kept everything my old man threw out, I’d be a wealthy man today”

and my favorite play by Mamet is “Sexual Perversity in Chicago” (the beach scene is the best LOL)

How about Ricky Jay? Will he cause a riot at this event?

Words from “House of Games” that have served me well:

Mike (Joe Mantegna): Play past it.

And I cannot believe no one has added:

George (Ricky Jay): I told you a squirtgun wouldn’t work.

Mike: A squirtgun would’ve worked. You didn’t have to FILL it!

George: What; am I going to threaten somebody with an empty gun?!

And finally, though not in a script, a great Mamet line: “Film is a collaborative business: bend over.”

Jeff: Wouldn’t surprise me if Mamet had something to do with Malice, even though I couldn’t find his name attached to it anywhere. Hell, it seems he has written drafts of just about half the scripts in Hollywood.

Dustin: LOVE that scene from “House Of Games.”

Everyone: These are great. Once again, you’re all making this a difficult contest. Wish I had tickets for everyone. There’s still time to win, though, so keep those entries coming.

By the way, dogstoevski, great profile of Ricky Jay. Thanks for the link.

“Invent nothing deny nothing.” David Mamet

This is great fun.

My favorite Mamet quote comes from his book “Bambi vs. Godzilla,” and should help anyone who is into dramatic writing.
“To write a successful scene, one must stringently apply and stringently answer the following three questions: 1. Who wants what from whom? 2. What happens if they don’t get it? 3. Why now?”

And my favorite line is one more from HEIST:
Hackman “I don’t want you as quiet as an ant pissing on cotton. I want you as quiet as an ant not even thinking about pissing on cotton.”

Thanks for all the great entries, everybody. As usual, you all made it too difficult to pick a winner. A winner has been notified and confirmed, though, so the contest is now closed.

If you didn’t win, you should still see this unique event. It appears there may still be a few tickets available, so get them at the link above. Also, come back to MetBlogs frequently, because there’s always something good happening here. Also, I’ll have tickets for another cool event a little later this week.

Finally, I’ll leave you with another of my favorite lines, also from the very quotable Heist:

Jim Frangione: “[If] you’re not that smart, how’d you figure it out?”
Gene Hackman: “I tried to imagine a fella smarter than myself. Then I tried to think, ‘what would he do?’”