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Sometimes 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.

Billy Eichner

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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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Culture Outsider Think
There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Involved Line Reputation
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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Crazy Fun Nice
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People
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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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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Country Jobs Writing
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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Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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Anything Character Endearing People
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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Kids Months Oscars
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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.
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Country Majority People Sound
When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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Kids Track Voice

Sometimes 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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Sometimes 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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