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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?' "
Billy Eichner
Grandmother
Doing
Song
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" 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. "
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Child
" 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
People
Money
Hollywood
" 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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Why
Time
" People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent. "
Billy Eichner
Moonlight
Excellent
Because
" There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me. "
Billy Eichner
People
Me
Funny
" 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. "
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Rock
Think
" 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
Say
You
Think
" Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person. "
Billy Eichner
Person
Says
Irritating
" 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. "
Billy Eichner
Character
Play
People
" It's not enough for Hollywood to make a bunch of gay movies. That's obviously a big part of the equation, but then gay people have to show up for those movies. "
Billy Eichner
Hollywood
People
Enough
" 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 Eichner
Wife
Balance
Beautiful
" 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
People
Me
Weird
" 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
World
Go
Important
" 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
New York
Impact
Back
" Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch line, which I think is ridiculous. The whole point of comedy is, on some level, to make fun of ourselves and put everything into an absurdist context. "
Billy Eichner
Saying
Comedy
Fun
" 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. "
Billy Eichner
Live
Age
Truth
" I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth. "
Billy Eichner
Career
Would
Without
" I'm not a bro. "
Billy Eichner
Bro
" No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show. "
Billy Eichner
Late-Night
Me
Talk
" If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off. "
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Will
You
Going
" I was a terrible waiter. "
Billy Eichner
Terrible
Waiter
" I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman. "
Billy Eichner
Up
Grew
Worshipping
" I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college. "
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Like
Thought
Kevin
" I have this ongoing obsession with Meryl Streep. "
Billy Eichner
Meryl Streep
Obsession
Meryl