I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
BILLY EICHNERSometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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It was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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You’re going to get killed.” That’s not what’s going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I’m on the street, I’m not worried about that.
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The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
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I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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