I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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You have to fight. You know, you don’t want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.
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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 spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
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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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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.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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