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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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Billy Eichner
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: September 18
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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. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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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. 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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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 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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We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.
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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'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.
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I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. 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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?
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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. 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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For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.
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If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.
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I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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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've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.
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