I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
BILLY EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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 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 one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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 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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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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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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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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