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 EICHNERI have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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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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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 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 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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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