I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
BILLY EICHNERIronically, 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 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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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