From the Foul Mouth of Mamet…
Actress Actor and playwright Nancy Balbirer’s forthcoming memoir will wax nostalgic about her days as a pupil under David Mamet, describing his teaching style as that of “a schoolyard bully in need of his daily Ritalin”.
The book, Take Your Shirt Off and Cry, promises some real jewels, including Mamet’s response to a student who asked who his favorite actresses were:
“Women who act are not actresses. They’re actors. Why do they need to fucking qualify what their genitalia are? Folks, seriously, I need to disabuse you of the notion that ‘actress’ is anything other than a euphemism for ‘floozy’ . . . Do women fucking writers call themselves ‘writressess?’ No!”
Read the whole article at First Post here.
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