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.
BILLY EICHNERWhat 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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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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 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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