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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.

Billy Eichner

I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNER

Complaining Get Just Miserable
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Faces Flavored Hurt Sexually Years
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNER

Media People Thinking
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 EICHNER

Cleaner Country Important Shot Something
I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNER

Caring Eczema Much Too
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
BILLY EICHNER

I Can People Trying
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Going Kill Killed Once Street
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Track Voice
I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
BILLY EICHNER

Award Lists Make Shows Win
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
BILLY EICHNER

Arbitrary Awards Fun Watches
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
BILLY EICHNER

Argument People Physically Really
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 EICHNER

Country Majority People Sound
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Crazy Fun Nice
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
BILLY EICHNER

College Going People

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