Billy Eichner Quotes
I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'
Quotes to Explore
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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Writers should provoke disagreement.
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I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.
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Preachers at black churches are the last people left in the English-speaking world who know the schemes and tropes of classical rhetoric: parallelism, antithesis, epistrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, periphrasis, litotes - the whole bag of tricks.
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I go to a regular school still, and I have the normal life of a regular kid.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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It's very likely that I will finish my career as Swiss national coach.
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If you don't have a unique voice, then you're not really a writer.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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If someone is making a judgment when they don't have firsthand experience, it's intolerant. How can you make a judgment on something you don't know about?
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When you work as hard as you can and as much as you can to make your first album, and you don't make any money, then you change things.
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Of course, I grew up hearing Latin music but, to be honest, aside from my personal circumstances, like most kids I wanted to rebel against what I considered to be such old fashioned fare.
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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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But nothing beats a Woody Allen film on a Sunday night, with a glass of wine and some leftovers.
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Hope is not a resting place but a starting point - a cactus, not a cushion.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.
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I heard a lot of those things. I heard that I was greedy; that I didn't care about winning; heard the questioning of my loyalty. And I'm thinking: 'Of course I want to win. I've been winning my entire life.'
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A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.
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While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.
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There was once a great actor named George C. Scott. He was on stage in the Delacourt Theater in Central Park, where they do Shakespeare every summer, and he was playing Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. At one point he took the robes he was wearing and just started flipping them up in the air, out of nowhere. And later, an actor said to him, "What was that, George, what were you doing?" And he said, "They were sleeping." You're always trying to catch them.
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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.'
