Eichner Quotes

#1. 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.

Billy Eichner

#2. 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

#3. There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me.

Billy Eichner

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

Billy Eichner

#5. There was life after Joe. There had to be, hadn't there? I just wished that instead of my constantly having to muster every scrap of my strength in order to feel normal, it would happen of its own accord. I didn't want happy. Normal would have done.

Harper Fox

#6. I have something to say about the difference between American and European cities, but I forgot what it was. I have it written down at home somewhere.

David Byrne

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. Hotmail just picked up 12 new episodes of 'Judging Amy'.

Billy Eichner

#10. Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

Billy Eichner

#11. 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

#12. 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

#13. But authors before they write should read.

Fanny Burney

#14. So much happiness is caged in language, ready to burst out anytime and fade

Rae Armantrout

#15. 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.

Billy Eichner

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

Billy Eichner

#17. 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.

Billy Eichner

#18. How does one go about getting an introduction to a fictional character?

Richard Bruce Nugent

#19. I'm not much of a dancer.

Billy Eichner

#20. I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Or, as it's known to Native Americans - Sarcastic You're Welcomesgiving.

Stephen Colbert

#21. I like talking to a person who is crazy in a fun, eccentric way. I don't want to talk to a legitimate crazy person, because that's not nice.

Billy Eichner

#22. 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

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

Billy Eichner

#24. Entrepreneurship is neither a science nor an art. It is a practice.

Peter F. Drucker