Eric Bogosian Quotes

I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we're doing here, or little stuff like, 'Why aren't I happier?' With every film I feel like I'm apologising for something. I feel I'm most successful when I'm looking for something that embarrasses me about my character that I'd like to expose.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

We're all flawed human beings trying to be a better person on a daily basis and I didn't figure that out for a long, long time.

It's really hard to foster self-love; it really is. I think a lot of people who claim that they do have a definite lack of self-loathing are either lying or just in a place that I don't relate to.

I'm getting stronger as a person, but sometimes I just need to get over myself!

Every fight is personal, but with myself.

I think that there is a tragic misfit at the core of me, and I've just done a lot of work on myself. I love a good self-help book; I've read a ton of them. I love self-help seminars and therapy and all that. I think that probably, at my core, if I had done no work on myself, I would probably be Laura from The Mysteries Of Laura, but I worked hard to be a more stable person because that's what I wanted out of my life.

However good you may be you have faults; however dull you may be you can find out what some of them are, and however slight they may be you had better make some - not too painful, but patient efforts to get rid of them.

The ordinary man puts up a struggle against all that is not himself, whereas it is against himself, in a limited but all-essential field, that the artist has to battle.

I am still a person with a sense of superficiality that I'm trying to challenge.

Through a long and painful process, I've learned that happiness is an inside job - not based on anything or anyone in the outer material world. I've become a different and better person - not perfect, but still a work in progress.

It is a true miracle when a man finally sees himself as his only opposition.

I went to a motivational training course once, a course of self-discovery, and I found out after a week that my fear - it was not a fear of not being accepted - was a very violent fear of failure.

I started second-guessing myself and was always questioning myself. I have really learned a lot.

Somewhere deep down there's a decent man in me, he just can't be found.

I wish that I wasn't such an odd mixture. I wish I was serious, but I do love high heels and romantic comedies: being in them and watching them.

I sometimes truly despair at ever being meaningfully altered and affected by the things I claim are so important to me.

Fortunately analysis is not the only way to resolve inner conflicts. Life itself still remains a very effective therapist.

I think a lot of people want people who actually have qualities they don't find attractive as a way of being able to change them. It's fascinating, because people think if they can change the other person, they can change themselves. It's a complex phenomenon. It's a fantasy that's actually about being able to come to terms with ourselves.

Exposing characters and their shortcomings gives me great comfort. It's always great to write about someone more mixed up than yourself.

Being a parent has taught me a lot of things already, you know, though it's only been a year and half, and has made me address parts of myself that I would otherwise live in comfortable denial of, or you know and - you know, for instance, my self-loathing.

Compare yourself to yourself and say, 'How can I be better? How can I be the real me?'

We are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.

Know that you are your greatest enemy, but also your greatest friend.