If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
BILLY EICHNERA 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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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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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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