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.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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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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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 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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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