I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNERWhat 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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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’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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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