Quotes from Billy Eichner

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

It's one thing to be struggling and not really making money in your early 20s and figuring out your life. Early 30s, you start to wonder, is this ever going to happen?

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

I think New Yorkers - they're media savvy. People have a sense of humor.

I would watch the Oscars and every award show with my parents. I would make lists of who was going to win. I'd be doing Oscar predictions months ahead of time, and not only for the Oscars, for the Grammys. This is just what excited me as a kid.

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 do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.

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.

If you're on TV, you can't complain, right? And I understand that, and it's true to a certain degree.

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.

There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? 'I Deported Your Grandmother?'

I learned early on that 'Billy on the Street' is a great lesson in 'Don't judge a book by its cover.'

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.

No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.

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.

We have a whole art department on 'Billy on the Street.' We give away dioramas that we've made.

I only scream if screaming is deserved.

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

I'm smart enough to know I shouldn't be behind the wheel.

Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of 'Billy on the Street.'

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.

If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off.

When I was child, I was intoxicated by celebrities, showbiz and theatre, but from a child's perspective, where they seem far away.

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.