I’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 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’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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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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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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