Top 147 Quotes & Sayings by Billy Eichner - Page 2

I think 'Billy on the Street' is a big show, but why do a show if you won't make it original and unique and powerful?

I loved 'Solid Gold!'

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.

I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.

I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.

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 on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.

I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.

It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.

The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.

If you're pretty, you want to be ugly. If you're loud, you want to play quiet. You always want to challenge people's expectations.

I only scream if screaming is deserved.

I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.

I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.

Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.

I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.

I did see one Tyler Perry movie in the theater. My friends and I went to see, I believe it was, 'Why Did I Get Married?'

I had about five years as a gay guy in New York after college before the whole Grindr explosion happened, where people were still going out to meet each other.

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

Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.

Society would be a lot better if people watched Hulu's original programming and not just 'Mozart in the Jungle,' which everyone is watching, apparently.

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

I like being in my New York bubble. It's the best bubble!

My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.

I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.

I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'

If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.

Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fat guy, but at least he has a beautiful wife - they balance it out.

'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.

I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.

I was like a fat, sweaty kid growing up in Queens who just was plopped down in front of 'Entertainment Tonight' by my parents.

I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.

Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.

I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.

I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.

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.

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.

You grow older, you evolve.

I think there's a fear once things start to blow up - as the people say - that if you stop for a second, it will all go away.

You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.

No one puts higher expectations on themselves than I do.

I have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

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.

I'm not a big reality show fan, because I just think it's too fake.

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.

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

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

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.

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.