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