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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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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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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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 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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