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.
BILLY EICHNERWe weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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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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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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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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