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.
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.
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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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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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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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 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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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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 can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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’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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