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.
BILLY EICHNEREvery 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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing 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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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 comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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