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.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

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.

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.

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

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.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.