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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

Billy Eichner

I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
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
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
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
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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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
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
There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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Involved Line Reputation
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
I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
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Country Majority People Sound
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going 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
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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

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