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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More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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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We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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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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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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