I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.
— Billy Eichner
I like good movies, and I love theater, and things that I grew up loving, I still love.
We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.
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.
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.
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.
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 do take for granted, probably, the fact that I grew up in New York City, one of the most liberal places on earth, with bleeding-heart, liberal parents who took me to see 'Rent' and Terrence McNally plays from a very young age.
When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.
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.
I just love Stephen Colbert. He's a genius.
I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.
I would never be a contestant on my own show. I would never speak to me, and I'd never sign the release.
My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.
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.
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.
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.'
You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything.
I only scream if screaming is deserved.
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 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?
Amy Poehler and I once ambushed people and made them sing Christmas carols with us.
The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.
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.
Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.
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.
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 do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.
I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep.
I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.
You grow older, you evolve.
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.
It's always really funny to watch someone who really wants something who isn't getting it but who's desperate for it.
To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.
If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.
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.
Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.
I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.
I grew up watching 'Saturday Night Live.'
Everyone's life experience is different.
'Billy on the Street' is a persona. It's crafted; it has writers. It's a mixture of performance art and comedy.
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.
'Billy on the Street' is a very exhausting show to do, as you can imagine, but it's worth it.
I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.
I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.
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?'
Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work.
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.
I loved 'Solid Gold!'
