There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
BILLY EICHNERIt’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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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 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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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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 think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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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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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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