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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.

Billy Eichner

It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Media People Thinking
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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Jobs Struggle Successful
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Arbitrary Awards Fun Watches
I’m not much of a dancer.
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Activity Dancer Happen Much
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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Difficult Metrics People
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
If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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Moving Next Walks
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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Anything Character Endearing People
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
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
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Complaining Get Just Miserable
I am invisible in gay bars.
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Bars Gay Invisible
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
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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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College Going People

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