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 was one of Hulu’s first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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I’m not much of a dancer.
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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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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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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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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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 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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