I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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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 thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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 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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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