I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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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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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 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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