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.
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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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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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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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The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
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What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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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’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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I 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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