I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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 thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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