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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.

Billy Eichner

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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Jobs Struggle Successful
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Moving Next Walks
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
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
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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Little Looks Mentally People Unbalanced
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 am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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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Careers Hollywood People
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
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 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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
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
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking

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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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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