I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.
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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
-
-
We’re really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It’s more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship.
BILLY EICHNER -
Difficult People? I don’t really know. I don’t have those metrics.
BILLY EICHNER -
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
BILLY EICHNER -
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.
BILLY EICHNER -
I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
BILLY EICHNER -
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.
BILLY EICHNER -
I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
BILLY EICHNER -
I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
BILLY EICHNER -
I think New Yorkers – they’re media savvy. People have a sense of humor.
BILLY EICHNER -
I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
BILLY EICHNER -
I 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 EICHNER -
I’m not much of a dancer.
BILLY 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 EICHNER -
I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
BILLY 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 EICHNER