I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.

BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing

Billy Eichner

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Moving Next Walks

Billy Eichner

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Involved Line

If you’re just really loud, people just want – will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

BILLY EICHNER

Loud

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.

BILLY EICHNER

Anything Endearing

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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Supported

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.

BILLY EICHNER

Nice

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.

BILLY EICHNER

Jobs

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.

BILLY EICHNER

Looks Mentally Unbalanced

I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.

BILLY EICHNER

Knew Material Paying Putting Working

Bill McKibben

BILL MCKIBBEN

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

BILLY EICHNER

Actors Kids Regular

Billy Eichner

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Dancer Much

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.

BILLY EICHNER

Majority