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Eric Bogosian

(1953) Actor United States

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Eric Bogosian is an actor from the United States, best known for Talk Radio.

Quick Facts About Eric Bogosian

Born: April 24, 1953
Nationality: United States
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Talk Radio

About Eric Bogosian

Eric Michael Bogosian is an American actor, playwright, monologuist, novelist, and historian. Descended from Armenian-American immigrants, he grew up in Watertown and Woburn, Massachusetts, and attended the University of Chicago and Oberlin College. His play Talk Radio was a finalist for the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Bogosian also wrote and starred in the 1988 film adaptation, winning the Silver Bear.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Guggenheim Fellowship National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

Quotes by Eric Bogosian

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

Hips

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

Duty

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

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“I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not…

Books

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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…

Deals

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

Acting

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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…

Audience

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“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but…

Books

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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…

Books

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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.

Approach

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From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing…

Art of life

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I know that I'm inadequate, but I never thought that at seventeen. I thought I was doing the best I could. I…

Idealistic

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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…

Cult

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There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

Boring

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

Cities

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

Hearted

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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…

Believe

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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…

Able

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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…

Actors

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For a long time, my shows were about people walking out or about getting my gigs canceled or having the presenter not…

Gigs

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

Caskets

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

Acting

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

Chess

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“At least I admit that I don't know. I know that things are fucked up, beyond belief, and I have nothing original…

Beyond belief

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

Conscious

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