I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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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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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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