I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
BILLY EICHNEREven 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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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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