A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
BILLY EICHNERI’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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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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 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.
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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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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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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 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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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