Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Bogosian

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Last updated on September 17, 2024.

Eric Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massachusetts, and attended University of Chicago and Oberlin College. His numerous plays include subUrbia (1994) and Pulitzer Prize in Drama finalist Talk Radio (1987), which were adapted to film by Richard Linklater and Oliver Stone, respectively. He also starred as Arno in the Safdie brothers' critically acclaimed film Uncut Gems (2019).

American - Novelist | Born: April 24, 1953

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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.

Eric Bogosian

I write, but I also act.

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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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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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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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I'm very underground.

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

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

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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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 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.

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

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

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

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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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

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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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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From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do and the wrong thing to do all depend on what part of life you are looking at it from.

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It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off.

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There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

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Top 26 Quotes & Sayings by Eric Bogosian

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