I am invisible in gay bars.
BILLY EICHNERI think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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.
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We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
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A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired, so everyone’s scared to take a chance.
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Ironically, my rabbi was a bar mitzvah Nazi. So I got bar mitzvahed. And though I didn’t want to, the theme of my bar mitzvah party was Madonna.
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I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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What I do is make myself this over-the-top character that people either find endearing or they think is a joke. Then I can do anything I want.
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I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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.
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Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn’t finding my way in.
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I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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Sometimes you go up to people who look totally normal and then you talk to them for a few seconds and you are like, Oh I better get out of this, because this person is a little mentally unbalanced, and they are not going to get a joke.
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I’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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.
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It’s crazy. I don’t know how I’m not dead. People think I’m going to get punched in the face: “Something terrible is going to happen to you.
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You’re going to get killed.” That’s not what’s going to kill me. The show is going to kill me. The work is going to kill me. Once I’m on the street, I’m not worried about that.
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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.
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I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
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I think it’s for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it’s to a fault. I think it’s for outsiders.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.
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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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There’s money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
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I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
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