I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERI couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERI thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
BILLY EICHNERThere have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNERA 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.
BILLY EICHNERI think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
BILLY EICHNERI can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
BILLY EICHNERThe 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 EICHNERI think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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.
BILLY EICHNERIt was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNERYou’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 EICHNERIronically, 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 EICHNERI knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
BILLY EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
BILLY EICHNERI never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
BILLY EICHNERWhen 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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