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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.

Billy Eichner

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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Crazy Fun Nice
There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Involved Line Reputation
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
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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Going Kill Killed Once Street
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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Caring Eczema Much Too
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
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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Anything Character Endearing People
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Argument People Physically Really
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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College Country Struggle
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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Kids Months Oscars
I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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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Country Jobs Writing

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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