Eric Bogosian Quotes

• 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.

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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.

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• Ensemble is hard to do. It’s like 3-D chess.

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• I don’t know anybody who does what I do. I’m very underground.

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• I love playing other people’s work. I love acting.

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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.

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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.

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• I’m not a light-hearted person, so I can’t think light-hearted at work.

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• I’m always surprised by things that happen to my work.

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

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• I write, but I also act.

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

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• I’m not hip, I’m not cool, I’m not glib.

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• I’m very underground.

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

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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.

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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.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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Eric Bogosian (23)

Birth:	24th April, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Historian, Novelist, Playwright

About

Eric Bogosian was born in Woburn, Massachusetts, USA. He is an American actor, playwright, historian, and novelist. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1976. Bogosian’s plays Talk Radio and subUrbia were adapted to film as was his solo, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. He has starred in several films including Talk Radio, Under Siege 2: Dark Territory and Wonderland. In television, he is best known for his starring role as Captain Danny Ross in the series Law & Order: Criminal Intent. He is the author of three novels: Mall, Wasted Beauty, and Perforated Heart. In 2015, he published Operation Nemesis: The Assassination Plot that Avenged the Armenian Genocide.

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