Facts about Eric Bogosian
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Eric Bogosian is a famous Actor from USA, he is still alive and was born April 24, 1953.
Zodiac etc.
He is born under the zodiac taurus, who is known for Security, Subtle strength, Appreciation, Instruction, Patience.
Our collection contains 23 quotes who is written / told by Eric.
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Famous quotes by Eric Bogosian (23)
"If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently"
"I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib"
"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"
"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess"
"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"
"If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest"
"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"
"I love playing other people's work. I love acting"
"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing"
"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"
"As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten"
"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"
"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"
"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work"
"I write, but I also act"
"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975"
"I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house"
"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"
"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"
"Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself"
"I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work"
"I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground"
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