Acting Quote by Eric Bogosian Download Open image “I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.” — Eric Bogosian ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Acting Excuse Performing Play Tilt Writing
I'm a playwright who gets involved in movies when I'm not writing a play. — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
My background is on the stage, so when I'd write movies, they'd be a lot like plays. — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
As a writer, I am just an actor in a play, telling a story that needs to be told. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I fell into writing plays by accident. But the reason I write plays is that it's the only thing I'm any good at. — David Hare Copy Share Image
I got really into writing plays. I did that for years and years and got some produced and didn't like it as much when… — Jake M. Johnson Copy Share Image
I write plays because writing dialogue is the only respectable way of contradicting yourself. I put a position, rebut it, refute the rebuttal, and… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
When I write a play, my whole intent at bottom is to get the audience to be in the cast, to get that audience… — Jules Feiffer Copy Share Image
If you're going to act and do this for a living, you want to play something that the audience didn't expect. — Albert Brooks Copy Share Image
“I mean, what kind of literature do you think ants would make if they could read? Not F. Scott Fuckin’ Fitzgerald, not Joyce or… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I write for an audience that likes what I like, reads what I read, thinks about the things I think about. In many ways,… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
“There is a larger lesson here, because the book encompasses not just the lives of prisoners in a Soviet prison camp, but every one… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently. — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
From my perspective of a guy in his late forties, its becoming more and more clear to me that the right thing to do… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
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… — Eric Bogosian Copy Share Image
I actually think acting is a form of self-hypnosis. You have to be hyper, hyper aware of what's going on around you. You have… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
Many Republicans have always reminded me of professional WWF wrestlers. They come into the ring all pumped up and acting like they're invincible and… — Paul Feig Copy Share Image
I'm a big fan of all the Boston guys that are acting - Matt Damon , Ben Affleck, Mark Wahlberg - they made a… — Kenny Wormald Copy Share Image
Acting is a grind, just like music is a grind. Sometimes it takes longer than what you can give. — Big Sean Copy Share Image
It was only when I started making short films in college and I was looking for girls to play the me-ish parts that I… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
Writing is something I took up rather than anything I had an inclination toward. I like acting -delivering someone else's message - but writing… — Steve Martin Copy Share Image
I can still function when I don't have that balance I crave. I had a tendency to be precious about acting, thinking of it… — Laura Regan Copy Share Image
Actors don't hate acting. Most people don't hate acting! Whether you're a child mucking around with your friends or a grown up being paid… — Liv Hewson Copy Share Image
It was only when I went to acting school that I was like, "You are absolutely such a pigheaded freak show that you thought… — Giles Matthey Copy Share Image
It definitely helps to have the acting experience going into singing, because when you're singing, you have to portray the emotion you were feeling… — Ryan Newman Copy Share Image
The show was number one in the ratings, Gordon Russell was our head writer, the story lines were magnificent and the acting most exciting.… — Michael Storm Copy Share Image
