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.
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’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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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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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 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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