I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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 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 think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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’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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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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