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 EICHNERWe’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 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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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