Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
BILLY EICHNERThere have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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 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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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 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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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