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.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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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 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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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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 came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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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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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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