It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNEREven when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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’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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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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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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