I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERIf someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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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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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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 the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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