I 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.
More Billy Eichner Quotes
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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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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’m not much of a dancer.
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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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Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I’m not the most outgoing person.
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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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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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I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.
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You 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.
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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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There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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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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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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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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