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Favorite Eric Bogosian Quotes

1. "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

2. "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

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

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

5. "It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off" ~ Eric Bogosian

6. "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

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

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

9. "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

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

11. "I write, but I also act." ~ Eric Bogosian

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

13. "I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib." ~ Eric Bogosian

14. "I'm very underground." ~ Eric Bogosian

15. "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

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

17. "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

18. "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

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