I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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You’re going to get killed.” That’s not what’s going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I’m on the street, I’m not worried about that.
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