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.
BILLY EICHNERIf someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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 had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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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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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’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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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