I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

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.

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.

If all I ever wrote about was inner city freaks, I think it would be dishonest.

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.

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.

I don't know anybody who does what I do. I'm very underground.

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 always surprised by things that happen to my work.

I write my plays to create an excuse for full-tilt acting and performing.

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 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.

I write, but I also act.

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket, it'll all be forgotten.

I'm very underground.

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

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

Ensemble is hard to do. It's like 3-D chess.

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

If we all knew we were going to live to be 150 years old, we'd all approach our lives very differently.

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

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

As soon as the dirt is hitting the casket itll all be forgotten.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

URGE is a grassroots charity. We organized to get some incubators to give to the hospital for the kids. We donate money to orphanages.

Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.

Thats what people do who love you. They put their arms around you and love you when youre not so lovable.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

Obedience, submission, discipline, courage--these are among the characteristics which make a man.

So I turned these sort of deficiencies into a, a workable thing if you understand what I mean.

Playing in front of an audience was just such a turn-on for me, and you have 200 people in the audience and it's like doing live theater. And filming something that goes to millions of people several weeks later, it's an interesting dynamic.

I love Rome for their calzones and New York City for the variety of quality eateries, but I absolutely fell in love with Miami for the stone crabs at Joe's just off Ocean Drive - the best I've ever had, and the Cajun food. The steaks out there are colossal - it's like having a shark and a cow on your plate.

If you are afraid of failure you don’t deserve to be successful!

My greatest fear is flying. And I do a lot of flying, so that's a bummer.

You may call me a Klansman if you will, but, potentially, every white man is a Klansman, as far as the Negro in competition with whites socially, economically and politically is concerned, and there is no use lying.

Like Joseph Mitchell, I would scour the streets of New York and find little pieces of what other people think of as junk - and collect it.

For a while, I couldn't decide whether or not I should pursue singing in the opera or acting. And I'm glad that I chose the latter because I wasn't a very good singer.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

When people say Jerry Lee Lewis invented rock n' roll, they forget Little Richard. People talk about Elvis Presley and forget he was singing black music. I don't blame Elvis. It was the music business figuring it could make more money from this music if it weren't presented from the original source.

Most people who are looking to get a handgun are going to get a carry permit. But most people don't carry around rifles with them; they keep them at home or at the range.

I've found that in places where women have not really been afforded full rights yet - for instance, in the Middle East - even very conservative politicians in the region will say, 'You know, my daughter would really like to meet you,' or, 'Would you send a note to my granddaughter?'

I'm on my own now. I have my own apartment.

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

The web does not just connect machines, it connects people.

Australia is already a world leader in dementia research, treatment and care.