A biography for Billy Eichnerhasn’t been written yet.
“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.”
“My father would read me Page Six instead of, like, kids' stories.”
“I loved all awards shows growing up, but of course, the Oscars was the biggest one.”
“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.”
“You don't want to really pick on someone that you genuinely like. In terms of 'Billy on the Street,' there are certain actors - I don't care if they find out because I do feel that way. Though it's almost never about appearance or something out of their control. I pick on choices they've made or roles they've taken.”
“I've actually enjoyed my time in L.A. more than a New Yorker is supposed to.”
“I don't mean to sound like a Pollyanna, but for me, New York is the ideal because of the diversity here. 'Billy on the Street' is really informed by that.”
“I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman.”
“Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them.”
“No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show.”
“I grew up in New York, so I had a lot of access to all kinds of movies, and I would handwrite reviews of them on loose-leaf paper.”
“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.”
“To me, what the 'Billy on the Street' persona is, is me as a 12-year-old.”
“We need to take a breath and find big ways and small ways to get active.”
“I do not like not having Wi-Fi in general, but certainly not on a plane. I fall apart.”
“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.”
“Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that.”
“If I'm screaming at someone, it's because I think they're an idiot.”
“I think that I am working to remind myself that it's still my life... you have to enjoy yourself.”
“I'm not a bro.”