As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten. Eric Bogosian More Quotes by Eric Bogosian More Quotes From Eric Bogosian It's my duty as a human being to be pissed off. Eric Bogosian pissed-off duty humans 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. Eric Bogosian perspective becoming guy I'm not hip, I'm not cool, I'm not glib. Eric Bogosian hips If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. Eric Bogosian our-lives approach years 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 mental-illness fake-people believe 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 halloween radio play 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. Eric Bogosian writing people past I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground. Eric Bogosian knows doe I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing. Eric Bogosian acting play writing There is nothing more boring than people who love you. Eric Bogosian boring love-you people Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself. Eric Bogosian eric real self Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess. Eric Bogosian ensemble hard chess I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. Eric Bogosian new-york writing school I'm very underground. Eric Bogosian I write, but I also act. Eric Bogosian writing 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 able brain world 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 cities people thinking I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work. Eric Bogosian hearted light thinking I'm always surprised by things that happen to my work. Eric Bogosian happens 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 idealistic seventeen knows
