Billy Eichner
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1,207 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 28 Jun
Billy Eichner’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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event in my life that really brought me down, I would have sought out therapy.
I never felt any shame about it.
I talk in the book about how I begged my mother to go to therapy because she had what I consider to be a substance abuse problem that ultimately, in my mind, brought on the heart attack that ended up killing her.
So I begged her when I was in college to go to a therapist.
Because I'll tell you this, though, I never went to a therapist, but I went to acting school.
And I had an amazing acting teacher.
An acting class is not a substitute for therapy, but has therapy-like elements to it.
It forces you to be honest with yourself and to let your guard down.
You have to be to be a good actor.
And I had an amazing acting teacher at Northwestern.
There's a whole chapter about her in my book.
Her name is Mary Poole.
And I came into Northwestern as this native New York kid, kind of a know-it-all, really wanted to be a good actor, but also had this kind of like smart-alecky energy about me.
Could you imagine?
Based on my work.
But now that's a put-on.
That's part of my performance.
When I was a teenager, I was a teenager coming from New York City, and I had kind of an attitude.
And she really cracked me open and had me get rid of all that nonsense.
all that.
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