Top 60 Billy Eichner Quotes

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I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the

I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.
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I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the ’86 Mets. I grew up in Queens, so when the Mets won the World Series that year, it was a big deal.
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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 always turn to Wendy Williams when there’s any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.
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I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.
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I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see ‘Rent’ and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
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I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I’d never sign the release.
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I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.
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You don’t want to really pick on someone that you genuinely like. In terms of ‘Billy on the Street,’ there are certain actors – I don’t care if they find out because I do feel that way. Though it’s almost never about appearance or something out of their control. I pick on choices they’ve made or roles they’ve taken.
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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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.
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There are people who have huge YouTube followings – whose every post gets hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of hits. But I don’t think that’s having the same impact as someone who has a regular presence on television, or both.
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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
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It’s one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it’s a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film something with you on a sidewalk.
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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving. What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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I like being in my New York bubble. It’s the best bubble!
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My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it’s basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.
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I’m on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that.
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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.
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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.
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If you’re on TV, you can’t complain, right? And I understand that, and it’s true to a certain degree.
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I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.
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I grew up watching ‘Saturday Night Live.’
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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.
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My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere – she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
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I’ve actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.
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I think that I am working to remind myself that it’s still my life… you have to enjoy yourself.
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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.
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I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
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The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go in

The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia’s in it, it’s a lot of old white people and gay men.
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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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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.
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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.
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I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the ’80s and ’90s… I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
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I learned early on that ‘Billy on the Street’ is a great lesson in ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover.’
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I’m not a bro.
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I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That’s the truth.
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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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I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.
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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.
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One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there – this was over 10 years ago, so it’s no one who I work with now or have worked with recently – but he told me that I was too ambitious.
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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.
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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 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?
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We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.
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I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.
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To me, what the ‘Billy on the Street’ persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.
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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.
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I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn’t dating anyone. But now I’m 36, and I still don’t date anyone.
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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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You can’t be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That’s what great actors have, too.
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Probably the most common question I get is, ‘Who’s your dream guest?’ That’s kind of annoying because there isn’t one.
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If I’m screaming at someone, it’s because I think they’re an idiot.
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If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it’s not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.
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I haven’t done many commercials, and I’m very picky about it because it comes down to creative control.
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I only scream if screaming is deserved.
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I loved ‘Solid Gold!’
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People come up to me all the time and say, ‘I just found out about you!’ Part of me is happy, and part of me is, like, Where the hell have you been?’
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