I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNEREvery actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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The 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.
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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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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’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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I 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.
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