Eric Bogosian Quotes & Sayings

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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