Latest Billy Eichner Quotes from Interviews

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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.

  Billy Eichner

  Caring, Too Much, Eczema

  "Billy Eichner Makes A Career Out Of Love/Hating Celebrity Culture". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, wboi.org. December 12, 2016.

• 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.

  Billy Eichner

  Fighting, Voice, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

• If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Giving, Want

  Source: www.npr.org

• It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

  Billy Eichner

  Struggle, Making Money, Wonder

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Billy Eichner

  Party, Want, Mitzvah

  Source: www.npr.org

• My father and I were really like a team. I mean, he was very supportive. He'd come to every single one of my live shows.

  Billy Eichner

  Team, Father, Mean

  Source: www.npr.org

• I had a lot of fans in New York. The press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job.

  Billy Eichner

  Jobs, New York, Writing

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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.

  Billy Eichner

  New York, People, Majority

  Source: www.npr.org

• I am invisible in gay bars.

  Billy Eichner

  Gay, Bars, Invisible

  Source: www.npr.org

• I never fully committed to the child actor thing. I also liked being a regular kid and being a student.

  Billy Eichner

  Children, Kids, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

• We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And that definitely inspired me.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Parent, Inspired

  Source: www.npr.org

• 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

  Kids, Voice, Track

  Source: www.npr.org

• I started out as a very traditional actor. The first thing I ever did in terms of performance was singing.

  Billy Eichner

  Singing, Firsts, Actors

  Source: www.npr.org

• I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Argument

  Source: www.npr.org

• I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

  Billy Eichner

  Thinking, Media, People

  Source: www.npr.org

• If someone walks away from me, I just let them walk, and I move on to the next person.

  Billy Eichner

  Moving, Next, Walks

  Source: www.npr.org

• Award shows are fun, but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.

  Billy Eichner

  Fun, Awards, Watches

  Source: www.npr.org

• I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Months, Oscars

  Source: www.npr.org

• I have a very vivid memory.

  Billy Eichner

  Memories, Vivid Memories, Vivid

  Source: www.npr.org

• It was pop culture, entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me as a kid. I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win.

  Billy Eichner

  Kids, Winning, Awards

  Source: www.npr.org

• I can tell when somebody recognizes me, and I try to avoid those people.

  Billy Eichner

  People, Trying, I Can

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The 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 Eichner

  Hurt, Years, Faces

  Source: www.avclub.com

• 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. 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 Eichner

  Crazy, Thinking, People

  Source: www.avclub.com

• The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

  Billy Eichner

  Guy, Together, Cameras

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I couldn't just get up every day and be miserable and complain.

  Billy Eichner

  Complaining, Miserable, Get Up

  Source: www.avclub.com