We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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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 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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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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