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.
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 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 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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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 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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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