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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"Man is a make-believe animal: he is never so truly himself as when he is acting a part."
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"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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"When actors are being defensive and defending their position, that is when you get less than good acting."
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"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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"I'm acting for the pleasure of it."
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"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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"You have to do real acting, not just do a voice."
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"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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"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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"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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"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."
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"Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself."
Pretty
"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."
Film
"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."
Acting
"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."
Thought
"I love playing other people's work. I love acting."
Love
"Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess."
Chess
"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."
Work
"I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations - the director and the actors and the designers build the house."
Actor
"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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