Billy Eichner

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

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

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

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. ”

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

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. ”

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

Even when I was struggling and had horrible day jobs and wanted to be successful but wasn't finding my way in, I knew what I had to do. I knew I had to keep working at it and keep putting material out there, even if no one was paying me for it. ”

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. ”

Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work. ”