We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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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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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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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