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 EICHNERYou’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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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.
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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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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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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 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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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