Billy Eichner on media
Billy Eichner24 quotes“I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.”
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If you’re just really loud, people just want – will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner 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.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner I am invisible in gay bars.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner 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.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner The most outrageous thing happened years ago in my YouTube days, when I asked an older lady – it was like a sexually flavored question and she just slapped me full-on across the face. That’s the one time someone got physically aggressive with me. And it hurt.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner 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.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner 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.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner We weren’t, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner I spend the majority of my time in New York and LA. I feel like a large part of my following and my fans are probably in New York and LA because of the work that I do is very New York-LA-centric. So people do recognize me. But it’s nothing overwhelming at all.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner 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.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.
Billy EichnerBilly Eichner There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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