Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNERI 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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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