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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.

Billy Eichner

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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Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
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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Jobs Struggle Successful
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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Party Want
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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Children Class Country
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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Country Jobs Writing
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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Culture Outsider Think
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
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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Caring Eczema Much Too
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
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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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
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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Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported

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