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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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 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 would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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 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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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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 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.
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