I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERYou 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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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 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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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 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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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 I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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