Quotes by Billy Eichner - Page 3

It's one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it's a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film something with you on a sidewalk.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Likes
Sidewalk
Time Your Someone
Different Thing
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We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the political process every single day, on both a macro and micro level.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Consistently
Engaged
Loud
Representatives
Vigilant
Every Single Day
Micro
Political Process
Single Day
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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 / Comedian
Making Money
Struggle
Wonder
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When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I literally said, 'You took me to see Barbra Streisand at Madison Square Garden.'
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Garden
Madison
Streisand
Me Father Parents
Barbra Streisand
Father Me Parents
Square
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I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up in Queens, so when the Mets won the World Series that year, it was a big deal.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Queens
Big Deal
Mets
Vivid
World Series
Baseman
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'Billy On The Street' has no doubt always been about the people we talk to. That being said, it thrills me that the show really has a dedicated following in the comedy world.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Dedicated
Following
No Doubt
World Me People
Always World Me
Billy
World Me Street
Thrills
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The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia's in it, it's a lot of old white people and gay men.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Broadway
Denzel
Diverse
Fantasia
Streets
Men Gay People
Broadway Show
Denzel Washington
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Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the country, and most, if not all, of Trump's cabinet is anti LGBT equality as well.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Mike
Vice President
Anti
Cabinet
Vice
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You can't be a great comedian without having self-awareness about others or your own faults. You need a strong sense of self and view on the world. That's what great actors have, too.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Comedian
Faults
Self Awareness
Great World Your
Great World View
Strong Sense
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I came out to my parents when I was a junior in college. And it was pretty fine. They were more concerned with why I wasn't dating anyone. But now I'm 36, and I still don't date anyone.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Dating
Date
Junior
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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 / Comedian
Cameras
Guy
Together
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I just worship Madonna. As, like, a young gay kid growing up in the '80s and '90s... I was at the Blond Ambition tour with my parents vogue-ing up in the mezzanine at the Nassau Coliseum.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Ambition
Worship
Blond
Madonna
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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.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
New York
College
Impact
Niche
Performers
Struggle
Struggling
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I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Awards
Invited
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One of the first big agencies that represented me, my point person there - this was over 10 years ago, so it's no one who I work with now or have worked with recently - but he told me that I was too ambitious.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Agencies
Work Me Person
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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. There's money involved, and there are careers and reputations on the line.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Careers
Hollywood
People
Take A Chance
Fired
Operate
Reputations
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I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found the entertainment business hilarious, ridiculous, and alluring - and my parents supported it, for better or worse.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Hilarious
Alluring
Award Shows
Entertainment Business
Award
Charts
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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 / Comedian
Kids
Awards
Winning
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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. We weren't, like, rich people, but we were middle-class people and my parents supported this love I had for entertainment.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
New York
Children
Class
Only Child
Rich People
Love Movies Parents
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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.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Dry
Important
World
Would Be
Funny World Me
Shot
Cleaner
Important Thing
Most Important Thing
Weigh
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I do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Granted
New York City
Young Age
Liberal
Rent
Take For Granted
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There are people who have huge YouTube followings - whose every post gets hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of hits. But I don't think that's having the same impact as someone who has a regular presence on television, or both.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Youtube
Hundreds
Hundreds Of Thousands
Post
Presence
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I don't think my voice has changed very much when it comes to things that I create. It's just my perspective, my point of view, and I guess that really hasn't changed very much. Luckily, it hasn't had to change in order for me to work.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Point Of View
Luckily
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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.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Littles
Looks
People
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A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving. 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.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Character
Endearing
Over The Top
Rocks
Thinking
Chris
Myself Character Always
Chris Rock
Myself Character People
On-Screen
Raving
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I know is that the response [for Difficult People ] has been really great. I think it's for smart people. I think it's for people who obviously care about pop culture or know about it, even if it's to a fault. I think it's for outsiders.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
People
Smart
Thinking
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If a comedian has a strong following, and the branded segment feels different compared to what you typically do, people will know right away that it's not authentic to who you are as a comedian or performer. Brands need to keep that in mind.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Branded
Comedian
Following
Mind People Will
Mind Keep People
Authentic
Right Away
Segment
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It was one of Hulu's first original shows to really go out there. Now a year has passed, and the second season is getting a great response. I think the show [Difficult People] itself creatively has evolved, has gotten much richer and tighter.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
People
Thinking
Years
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Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Context
Punch
Punch Line
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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, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Jobs
Horrible
Struggle
Successful
Me Day Way
Paying
Struggling
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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. 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 / Comedian
Lists
Oscars
Predictions
Time Me Award
Time Me Win
Award
Grammys
Oscar
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My mom had a heart attack, and it came out of nowhere - she was 54. My dad had leukemia for about 3 months. He was 80 when he passed. My dad had me later in life, and so he had leukemia and was alive for about 3 months between diagnosis and passing away.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Dad
Mom
Alive
Diagnosis
Heart
Leukemia
Months
Passing
Life Mom Dad
Life Mom Heart
Had
Attack
Away
Nowhere
Between
Came
Life Dad Mom
Later
Passed
She
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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 / Comedian
Faces
Hurt
Years
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I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Band
Creation
Form
Giving
Late Night
Stage
Sidekick
Talk
Tv
Time Me Live
Nation
Late-Night Talk
Late-Night Talk Show
Mine
Talk Show
Tv Show
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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.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
New York
Majority
People
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I think it [ Difficult People] is for people who don't feel that they have been properly represented on TV. I think it's painting a very accurate if slightly exaggerated for comedic purposes view of the LGBT world in a way that we have never, ever seen in any television show.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
People
Thinking
Views
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It's been a very strange trajectory because I struggled for so many years. I mean, I was doing these videos, I was doing these live shows, I had a lot of fans in New York, the press would write about me, but I couldn't get a paying job, and so my father and I were really like a team.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Trajectory
Struggled
Live Shows
Paying
So Many Years
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You don't want to really pick on someone that you genuinely like. In terms of 'Billy on the Street,' there are certain actors - I don't care if they find out because I do feel that way. Though it's almost never about appearance or something out of their control. I pick on choices they've made or roles they've taken.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Appearance
Billy
Genuinely
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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. 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 / Comedian
Crazy
People
Thinking
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I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and people of every sexual orientation and gender and age group. Everyone is saying we live in this bubble, and there's some truth to that. But I do not think it is healthy to all of a sudden invalidate the way we live in New York.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Queens
Diverse
Homeless
Orientation
Age Group
Bubble
Sexual
Sudden
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We're really fleshing out the whole world of the show [Difficult People]. It's more of an ensemble now, whereas last season we were very focused on establishing the Billy/Julie friendship. Now that that's been established, we don't question that they love each other and what the show's about. So we can meander outside of that.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Ensemble
People
World
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By TV standards - I'm not comparing it to manual labor by any means - by TV comedy standards, it is the hardest job I will ever, ever have. There is nothing that could be harder. I mean, when you combine the amount of writing that has to be done - sharp writing - with the fact that you then take it to the street and improvise with both celebrities who have no idea what's going to happen and real people who are not actors or comedians who don't even know I'm about to talk to them... It's lightning in a bottle every time.
Billy Eichner / Comedian
Jobs
Real
Writing
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