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Eric Bogosian Biography

Eric Bogosian (born April 24, 1953) is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian.

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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.

Believe, Fake People, Fresh, Mental Illness, Show

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.

Complex, Past, People, Quite, Stuff, Writing

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

Acting, High, New York, School, Writing, York

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

Cities, Freaks, Inner, Thinking, Would Be, Wrote

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.

Generally, People, Things, Thinking, Writing

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.

Cities, People, Say, Thinking

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

Bogosian, Eric, Pretty, Real, Self

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

Chess, Ensemble, Hard

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

Approach, Differently, Live, Lives, Our Lives, Years

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

Bricks And Mortar, Directors, House, Mortar, Provide, Words

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

Happen, Happens, Surprised, Things, Work

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.

Becoming, Forties, Guy, Part, Perspective, Wrong

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Boring, Love, Love You, Nothing, People

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

Acting, Love, People, Playing, Work

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

Acting, Create, Performing, Play, Plays, Writing

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.

Idealistic, Know, Knows, Seventeen

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

Doe, Know, Knows, Underground

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

Duty, Human, Humans, Pissed, Pissed Off