I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERI 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’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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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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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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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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