Billy Eichner Quotes
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People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.
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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 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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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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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 not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.
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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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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 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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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 am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
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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 grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.
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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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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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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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If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.
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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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All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.
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I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!
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I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
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I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.