American - Actor | April 24, 1953 -
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
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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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As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.
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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 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 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 always surprised by things that happen to my work.
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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 not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib.
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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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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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