I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
BILLY EICHNEREvery actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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’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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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 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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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