Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNERI have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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You have to fight. You know, you don’t want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.
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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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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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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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