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.
BILLY EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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 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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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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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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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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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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