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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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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 was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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.
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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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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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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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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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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