Billy Eichner

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

“Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.”

“Things pop out of people's mouths that you wouldn't expect them to say, so I've stopped trying to guess ahead of time who might be interesting to talk to.”

“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.'”

“People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's an immediate sign to run in the other direction.”

“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.”

“I can be a bit of a nervous flyer.”

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

“The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul.”

“I'm a very outside-the-box kind of guy.”

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

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