Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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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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 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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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated 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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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 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 couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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