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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.

Billy Eichner

I’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY EICHNER

Activity Dancer Happen Much
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Party Want
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNER

Character Rocks Thinking
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Track Voice
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNER

Caring Eczema Much Too
I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNER

Bars Gay Invisible
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Going Kill Killed Once Street
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Crazy Fun Nice
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing Sound
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Crazy People Thinking
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
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

Little Looks Mentally People Unbalanced
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
BILLY EICHNER

Difficult Metrics People
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional

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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