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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

Billy Eichner

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
BILLY EICHNER

Moving Next Walks
I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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Knew Material Paying Putting Working
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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Fight Fighting Show Voice Want
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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Ensemble Focus Friendship People Season World
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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Award Lists Make Shows Win
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Actors Firsts Performance Singing Traditional
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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Country Jobs Writing
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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College Country Struggle
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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Crazy Fun Nice
It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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Award Kids Winning
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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Crazy People Thinking
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.
BILLY EICHNER

Little Looks Mentally People Unbalanced
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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Original People Show Thinking Years
I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
BILLY EICHNER

College Going People
A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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Character Rocks Thinking
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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Actors Outgoing Sound

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