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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.

Billy Eichner

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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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Supported
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 Endearing
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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
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
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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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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Nice
If you’re just really loud, people just want – will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.
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Dancer Much
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 Kids Regular
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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