I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERI thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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