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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 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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Award Lists Make Shows Win
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
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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Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
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 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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Children Class Country
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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People
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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Original People Show Thinking Years
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Arbitrary Awards Fun Watches
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
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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Men People Years
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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
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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Kids Track Voice

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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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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