Billy Eichner Quotes

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

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• I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Friend
  • Football
  • Dying

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• The FHA literally drew up the redlining map and then basically distributed - I'm sorry, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation actually did it, and then distributed to banks who used that as policy to determine how they would lend and who they would lend to. The racism in the system was pervasive and total.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Up
  • Home
  • Sorry

• I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Dad

• I was brought up in an environment where my parents expressed their financial concerns in front of their children.

  

  Natalie Imbruglia
  • Up
  • Children
  • Parents

• When I was in the running for the role of Elphaba, I knew it was important to research and study as much background information as I could, so I got my head stuck into 'Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West' by Gregory Maguire, and I believe I lost many days, weeks, and months reading it - I was captivated!

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Important

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've been called Mr. Patient Money because I have the patience to work through challenging circumstances.

  

  N. Murray Edwards
  • Work
  • Money
  • Patience

• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
  • Want
  • Feel

• My songs are very personal, which means they are fantastically therapeutic to write, but performing them night after night is emotionally draining.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Night
  • Write
  • Very

• If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Nervous
  • Plane
  • Turbulence

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

  

  J. P. Donleavy
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Human

• Winston Cup and the Busch Series are two totally different leagues. You get put in different situations.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Different
  • You
  • Two

• When I say I'm an authentic conservative, it's because when you look at who I am and where I come from, it'd be a lot easier to have grown up a Democrat.

  

  Adam Hasner
  • Conservative
  • Democrat

• I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Myself

• This is my seventh decade... and every once in a while I get a hankering to re-visit these songs again... songs with which I have had a great relationship.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Great
  • Relationship
  • Decade

• My ideal travel companions are my surfboard, wetsuit, and guitar.

  

  Alexander Ludwig
  • Travel

• To me, what I realized when we were doing 'Spinal Tap' - and the four of us wrote that - is, really, the core of that is the relationship with the two guys who grew up together and that strain when the girlfriend comes in. If that wasn't there, it's a very different movie. Then it's just bumbling guys stumbling along.

  

  Christopher Guest
  • Up
  • Different
  • Together

• I think I have experience in rowing, and that has given me some ability to go about racing. I'm lucky genetically. I have a good VO2 max - I can hold a lot of air in my lungs - and that definitely helps.

  

  Bryan Volpenhein
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Air

• I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Deeds
  • Menace

• Sometimes people don't answer because they didn't hear you, Other times it's because they don't want to hear you!

  

  Cynthia Lord
  • People
  • Want
  • Answer

• If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

  

  Billy Eichner
  • People