Zitat des Tages von Billy Eichner:
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.
I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.
Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.
You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.
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.
I only scream if screaming is deserved.
One thing that I love about 'Difficult People' is that Julie Klausner and our showrunner, Scott King, have written the lead character I play as a fully formed man.
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.
Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to them, but don't make sense to me or any people.
I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.
Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
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.
You grow older, you evolve.
'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
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.'
I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.
People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent.
I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.
Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.
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.
There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'
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.
When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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.
I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.
'Billy on the Street' is the hardest thing that I will ever do.
There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.
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.
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.
I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
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.
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 just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.
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.
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.
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.