43 Quotes by Eric Bogosian

There is nothing more boring than people who love you.

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.

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

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.

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

I’m very underground.

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

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.

I provide the bricks and mortar with the words and situations – the director and the actors and the designers build the house.