I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNERI was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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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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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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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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 knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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