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Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'
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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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Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.
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We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.
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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 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 do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.
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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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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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Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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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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I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
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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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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.
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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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If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.
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The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.
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All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.
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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'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
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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?'
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I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!
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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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