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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

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.
BILLY EICHNER

Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Little Looks Mentally People Unbalanced
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNER

Character Rocks Thinking
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult Lighter Richer Show Think
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People
I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
BILLY EICHNER

Cleaner Country Important Shot Something
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Track Voice
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
BILLY EICHNER

Moving Next Walks
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.
BILLY EICHNER

College Country Struggle
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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Actors Outgoing Sound
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Argument People Physically Really
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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Going Kill Killed Once Street
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
BILLY EICHNER

Children Class Country
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNER

Award Kids Winning

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