Eric Bogosian Quotes

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

Best, Thought, Inadequate

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
Eric Bogosian

Soon, Forgotten, Hitting

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.
Eric Bogosian

Hard, Chess, Ensemble

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

Time, Long, Getting

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.
Eric Bogosian

I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
Eric Bogosian

Love, Work, Acting

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.
Eric Bogosian

Words, House, Build

I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975.
Eric Bogosian

School, Writing, Acting

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

Play, Become, Talk

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.
Eric Bogosian

Acting, Write, Create

I write, but I also act.
Eric Bogosian

I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work.
Eric Bogosian

Work, Happen, Surprised

I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work.
Eric Bogosian

I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
Eric Bogosian

I'm very underground.
Eric Bogosian

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.
Eric Bogosian

City, Inner, Dishonest

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.
Eric Bogosian

Live, Old, Lives

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

Forget, Working, Show

Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself.
Eric Bogosian

Real, Pretty, Himself

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

Past, Write, Stuff

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

Write, Read, Ways

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

Person, Thinking, Problem

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

Work, End, Daily

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Actor

Born: April 24, 1953

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