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 EICHNERThe 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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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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