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.
BILLY EICHNERI can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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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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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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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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 have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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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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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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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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