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.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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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 am invisible in gay bars.
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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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 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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