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I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.
I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.
I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
All I wanted to do as a kid was go to the post-Oscar parties I was seeing on 'Entertainment Tonight.'
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.
I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.
I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.
I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm known for and dilute it.
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.
Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'
'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?
It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.
Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.
I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'
My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.
There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'
I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.
I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by my parents.
If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.
When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.
The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
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.
Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.
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.
If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.
My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.
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.
Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.
People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.
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.
Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fat guy, but at least he has a beautiful wife - they balance it out.
Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.
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.
Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.
I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.
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.
It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.
I had about five years as a gay guy in New York after college before the whole Grindr explosion happened, where people were still going out to meet each other.
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.
One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.