I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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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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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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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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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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