There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
BILLY EICHNERWe weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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’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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