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.
BILLY EICHNERSometimes 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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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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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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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.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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.
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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It was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
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