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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.

Billy Eichner

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
It was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
BILLY EICHNER

Original People Show Thinking Years
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Culture Outsider Think
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
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Careers Hollywood People
I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I Can People Trying
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 am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNER

Bars Gay Invisible
I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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Argument People Physically Really
I’d be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.
BILLY EICHNER

Kids Months Oscars
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Children Kids Regular Student
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
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Party Want
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNER

Actors Outgoing Sound
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
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

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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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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