I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERI 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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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 thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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It 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.
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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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