Billy Eichner
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I'm not a bro. BILLY EICHNER I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that. BILLY EICHNER I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and peopl... BILLY EICHNER A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving.... BILLY EICHNER I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creati... BILLY EICHNER I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found... BILLY EICHNER Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me. BILLY EICHNER Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of t... BILLY EICHNER Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not co... BILLY EICHNER I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up i... BILLY EICHNER When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ... BILLY EICHNER Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fa... BILLY EICHNER Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the countr... BILLY EICHNER Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work. BILLY EICHNER One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Sc... BILLY EICHNER If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off. BILLY EICHNER I can be a bit of a nervous flyer. BILLY EICHNER Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that. BILLY EICHNER My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, T... BILLY EICHNER I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sid... BILLY EICHNER All that social media hyperbole is just so fake. BILLY EICHNER We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the p... BILLY EICHNER Everyone's life experience is different. BILLY EICHNER For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can... BILLY EICHNER The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul. BILLY EICHNER You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything. BILLY EICHNER Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch... BILLY EICHNER I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman. BILLY EICHNER I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm know... BILLY EICHNER People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's... BILLY EICHNER There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? '... BILLY EICHNER No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show. BILLY EICHNER I was a terrible waiter. BILLY EICHNER People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just found out about you!' Part of me is happy... BILLY EICHNER Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to the... BILLY EICHNER A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired... BILLY EICHNER There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me... 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&... BILLY EICHNER Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing pers... BILLY EICHNER I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find th... BILLY EICHNER Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of... BILLY EICHNER The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not ... BILLY EICHNER I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth. 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 only scream if screaming is deserved. BILLY EICHNER I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college. BILLY EICHNER If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to ... BILLY EICHNER This is a big step in uniting everybody. 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It is a lie. 
It is a small world. You do not have to live in it particuarly long to learn that for yourself. Ther... 
Although the 'New York Times' annually declares that Broadway is on its deathbed, news of it... 
Every night, half an hour before curtain up, the bells of St. Malachy's, the Actors' Chapel ... 
In Washington, no one believes anything unless it comes from 'The New Yorker,' 'New York... 
you have to be the prude or the slut, and if you pick one, other people hate you for it, and you can... 
People have always said, are you gay? I've had a lot of that. But it's just not in me. I rea... 
Here's why I cannot vote for Rudy Giuliani. He's pro-abortion. He's never repudiated gay... 
I like being from a city that is not entrenched in show business. When you're in New York City o... 
For starters, that’s a rather simple principle of Time Travel right there – and according to the... 
When you're in New York City or Los Angeles, even if you're not dealing with show business, ... 
You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... 
I don't think that everything on Broadway relates to us, and I think that's why we as black ... 
In America, we're kind of lazy. But in New York, it's one of those places where you see the ... 
As I make my way through, I feel okayness reaching through me.
There's a lot of haters in Philly, but it's a lot of people that give you support - but way ... 
New York is traditional New York, you know what I'm saying? It's the stomping ground of the ... 
New York is a great city. There is no question of that. It's such a diverse city. I've walke... 
But it's a Broadway show, so even if you're Christine in Phantom, you're still a princes... 
I have friends who are black, white, purple, gay, straight, Martian, yellow, old, and young. I have ... 
When it's three o'clock in New York, it's still 1938 in London. 
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Broadway is another monster. I've been touring since I was 12 years old and I love being on the ... 
He never seemed to get tired. Always first up and ready to move on. Never afraid of what lay ahead. 
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Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. 
France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper. 
He has Van Gogh's ear for music. 
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God has a big eraser. 
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