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

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

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

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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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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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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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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.

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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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