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.
BILLY EICHNERI can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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’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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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’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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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