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.
BILLY EICHNERI’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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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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 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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