Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not having an adult perspective on the world.
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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 don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.
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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 did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.
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I was a terrible waiter.
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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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I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
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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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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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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
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The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.
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When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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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 grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
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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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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.
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I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!
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Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well.
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I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
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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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There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'