I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
BILLY EICHNERI’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don’t want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that’s not nice.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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