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Eric Bogosian (23)

Birth:	24th April, 1953
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Actor, Entertainer, Novelist, Playwriter

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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 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.

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

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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 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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• 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 not a light-hearted person, so I can’t think light-hearted at work.

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

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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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• I write, but I also act.

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

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• I’m not hip, I’m not cool, I’m not glib.

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• I’m very underground.

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

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

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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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