There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNERI 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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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I am invisible in gay bars.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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 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 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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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