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.
BILLY EICHNERThere’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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