Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
BILLY EICHNERDifficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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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 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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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 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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I’m not much of a dancer.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 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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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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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 think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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