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Eric Bogosian
American
Actor
About the author
If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Work
I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
I'm very underground.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Years
#Old
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Thinking
#First
#Sense
#Literature
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Forget
I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Acting
Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Pretty
#Self
I write, but I also act.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Act
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Work
#World
#End
#Being
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Talk
#Film
#Play
#Popular
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Writing
#School
I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Words
#Actors
I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Acting
#Love
#People
#Work
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Being
#Thought
I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#People
#Past
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.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Time
#People
#Walking
Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Chess
As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.
Eric Bogosian,
American
Actor
#Work
#Light
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,
American
Actor
#People
#Theater
#Opposition