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.
BILLY EICHNEREven 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 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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 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.
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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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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 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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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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