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 EICHNERI started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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 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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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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