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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.

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

Eric Bogosian

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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

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

Eric Bogosian

I write, but I also act.

Eric Bogosian

I'm very underground.

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house.

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian

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

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

Eric Bogosian

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 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

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

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.

Eric Bogosian

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

Eric Bogosian