I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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.
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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.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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