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.
BILLY EICHNERI thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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