Billy Eichner Quotes

I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find that niche where you can have some sort of impact. And for me that turned out to be comedy.

I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

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.

I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

When I opened my mouth to sing as a kid, I kind of randomly had a really good singing voice. And so that put me on the actor track and the musicals track.

We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

I have a very vivid memory.

I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.

I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

You have to fight. You know, you don't want to fight, but you have to fight to make your show your own, to make your voice be heard. You just have to sometimes.

Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

I'm not much of a dancer.

Difficult People? I don't really know. I don't have those metrics.

Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.

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.

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.