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.
BILLY EICHNERI think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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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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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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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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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 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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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 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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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 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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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