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"I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing."
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"I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting."
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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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"I was able to support myself by acting alone about six years ago. Until then, I was just scraping by."
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"I'm not as focused on my acting career as I have been in the past."
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"You've got to keep taking certain risks, because my priority is in acting, it's not in movie stardom."
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"Because modeling is lucrative, I'm able to save up and be more particular about the acting roles I take."
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"I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."
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"I jumped into acting because it was fun. It was tougher when I had to take my fun seriously."
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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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"I started acting when I was in high school, started writing when I got to New York in 1975."
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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 would be a proxy for myself because that's what the deal is with me."
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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 many ways, this puts me in opposition to the people who go to the theater generally."
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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."
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"I write, but I also act."
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"I'm not a light-hearted person, so I can't think light-hearted at work."
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"Well, the real Eric Bogosian is pretty self-conscious of himself."
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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 thought I was being idealistic."
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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 world, that I can't seem to be able to shut out, it has to end up being in my work as well."
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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 thing and a cult thing."
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