Eric Bogosian quotes

If you say city to people, people have no problem thinking of the city as rife with problematic, screwed-up people, but if you say suburbs - and I'm not the first person to say this, it's been said over and over again in literature - there's a sense of normalcy. (Eric Bogosian)
I write, but I also act. View quote
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I love playing other people's work. I love acting. View quote
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I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house. View quote
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I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I thought I was being idealistic. View quote
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As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten. View quote
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It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off. View quote
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If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. View quote
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I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work. View quote
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I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground. View quote
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I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally. (Eric Bogosian)
The world intrudes in my brain daily. Since my brain is dripping with all kinds of stuff that's out there in the world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well. View quote
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I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. View quote
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I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. View quote
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I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work. View quote
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It's a mental fake-out to myself. I make believe I'm making a new show so I forget the material I was working on and make up some fresh material. View quote
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I'm very underground. View quote
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If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest. View quote
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I was definitely surprised when Talk Radio took off as a play. As a film it has become somewhere between a popular thing and a cult thing. View quote
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For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not wanting to pay me. View quote
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Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself. (Eric Bogosian)
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib. View quote
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I do write about people who are complex and are striving with something and can't quite get past their own stuff, which would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me. View quote
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Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. View quote
Eric Bogosian

Eric Bogosian

Occupation: American Actor
Quotes count: 24
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