I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERWhen 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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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 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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