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.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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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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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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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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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