I’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY EICHNERI’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY EICHNERI couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNERAward shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
BILLY EICHNERI thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it’s the most important thing in the world, and as if it’s something that everyone should weigh on because it’s important to me.
BILLY EICHNERWhat 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 EICHNERA 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 EICHNEREvery actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
BILLY EICHNERThe 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 EICHNERI 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 EICHNERI think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNERI was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
BILLY EICHNERIt’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.
BILLY EICHNERI had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn’t get a paying job.
BILLY EICHNERI have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNERThere have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNERYou 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.
BILLY EICHNER