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Eric Bogosian

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

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Donna Grant

"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."

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Donna Grant

"There is more good writing and good acting in any ten minutes of Twister than in, say, all of Citizen Kane."

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Donna Grant

"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."

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Donna Grant

"For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting."

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Donna Grant

"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."

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Donna Grant

"Acting classes, I guess, are good and I would like to maybe sometime take one. But I would feel like I was learning someone else's technique. I like mine."

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Donna Grant

"I decided I was going to give up singing and concentrate on acting, and a result of that, I didn't do another film for two to three years, and I don't blame it on anybody but myself."

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Donna Grant

"It's not subtle or restrained. It's not any of the things you like to think apply to your acting."

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Donna Grant

"It's interesting to play a role where you don't really have to preoccupy yourself with any need to convince yourself that you're not acting."

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Donna Grant

"I never really considered acting as a career until I moved to New York."

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

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

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Eric Bogosian
"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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Eric Bogosian
"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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Eric Bogosian
"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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Eric Bogosian
"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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Eric Bogosian
"I write, but I also act."

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Eric Bogosian
"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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Eric Bogosian
"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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