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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

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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going 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
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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Culture Outsider Think
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
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
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 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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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
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
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
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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Party Want
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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Actors Outgoing Sound
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 the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think

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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