I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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