Billy Eichner Quotes

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Billy Eichner

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 18, 1978

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.

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People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent.

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Everyone's life experience is different.

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I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.

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All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

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No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

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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.

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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.

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People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just found out about you!' Part of me is happy, and part of me is, like, Where the hell have you been?'

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All I wanted to do as a kid was go to the post-Oscar parties I was seeing on 'Entertainment Tonight.'

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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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It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies.

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I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college.

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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.

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If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to get in there and ignore the people who say no.

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I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.

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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.

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There are certain people you're allowed to pick apart and certain people you're not.

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Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.

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I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

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