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 EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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 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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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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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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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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