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.
BILLY EICHNERI can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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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 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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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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It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows – these are the things that really captivated me as a kid.
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I am invisible in gay bars.
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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.
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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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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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Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.
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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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A lot of comics aren’t their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn’t always ranting and raving.
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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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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.
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I couldn’t just get up every day and be miserable and complain.
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