Billy Eichner Quotes

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Billy Eichner

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 18, 1978

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.

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I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.

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For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can connect with my love for Meryl Streep, I don't know.

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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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I loved 'Solid Gold!'

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We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.

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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.

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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.

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People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.

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If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

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I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth.

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I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

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There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

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I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.

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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.

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I always turn to Wendy Williams when there's any type of ethical or moral crisis in our country.

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I was a terrible waiter.

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Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.

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I'm not a bro.

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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.

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