I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERIf someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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