Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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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 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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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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