Quotes from Billy Eichner

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

I've never even been invited to the GLAAD awards, to sit in the audience. I don't necessarily care, and I'm sure they will one day, and it will be fine, but I've never been invited to anything like that.

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.

I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.

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.

I always want to lead with comedy but hopefully be able to sneak my message through at the same time.

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.

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

Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of annoying because there isn't one.

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.

If you're just really loud, people just want - will give you what you want just to get you to shut up.

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.

All that social media hyperbole is just so fake.

I loved 'Solid Gold!'

I am Jewish, but I love Christmas, as most Jews with any taste do, because Hanukkah is lame.

I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sidekick and a band, and I wrote the whole thing. And it had the form of a late-night talk show, but we did it on stage because no one was giving me a TV show at the time.

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.

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

People saw 'Moonlight' because it was excellent.

My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, Tyler Perry, Martin Scorsese, in that order.

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?'

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 have a medical condition, all right. It's called caring too much, and it's incurable. Also, I have eczema.

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.'