I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNERI never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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.
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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