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. Billy Eichner Read Quote
The ‘Billy On The Street’ persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child – obviously not having an adult perspective on the world. Billy Eichner Read Quote
Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of them. Billy Eichner Read Quote
The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington is in it, or Fantasia’s in it, it’s a lot of old white people and gay men. Billy Eichner Read Quote
Our pop cultural likes and dislikes are still very segregated, and that is not true of ‘Billy on the Street.’ Billy Eichner Read Quote
There are certain people you’re allowed to pick apart and certain people you’re not. Billy Eichner Read Quote
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. Billy Eichner Read Quote
It’s one thing to hear that someone likes your show; it’s a completely different thing to have them come take their time and film something with you on a sidewalk. Billy Eichner Read Quote
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. Billy Eichner Read Quote
If you’re on TV, you can’t complain, right? And I understand that, and it’s true to a certain degree. Billy Eichner Read Quote
