I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
BILLY EICHNERI 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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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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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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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 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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