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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.

Billy Eichner

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Billy Eichner
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: September 18
Actor
Comedian
Film Actor
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Voice Actor
Writer
New York City
New York
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Heard
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Shows
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I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.
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I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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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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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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Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.
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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. 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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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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I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.
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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 think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
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I have a very vivid memory.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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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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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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I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it's nothing overwhelming at all.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, 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 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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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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If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.
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