Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
BILLY EICHNERI’m not much of a dancer.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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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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I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York.
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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’ve had a lot of arguments with people, but it’s never really gotten physical.
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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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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 started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.
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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 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.
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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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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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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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I have a medical condition, all right. It’s called caring too much, and it’s incurable. Also, I have eczema.
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