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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.

Billy Eichner

I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
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Kids Months Oscars
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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Entertainment Parents People Rich Supported
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
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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College Country Struggle
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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Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
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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Kids Track Voice
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
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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Crazy Fun Nice
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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Men People Years
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
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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Careers Hollywood People
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People

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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