I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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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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 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 am invisible in gay bars.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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