Billy Eichner
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JOE CARNAHAN MICHELLE YEOH GARRETT HEDLUND ERIC MCCORMACK JOHN HURT Julie Andrews is so iconic, and I grew up watching 'The Sound of Music' - it's every gir... LAURA OSNES The thing about Spike Lee... that's a deep experience to work with someone who is that intense a... JON BATISTE A personal game-changer was when Ridley Scott cast me as King John, the King of England, for 'Ro... OSCAR ISAAC ALEX TIZON WARWICK DAVIS One thing about me is that I'm very much like the Black Madonna. I love to reinvent myself and t... LIL' KIM I'd love to play a lead in the theatre. BEN HARDY I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. OLIVIA D'ABO As human beings, of course, we're all compromised and complex and contradictory and if a screenp... HUGO WEAVING JULIANNA MARGULIES When I look at my body, I'm like, 'I'm a lead of a TV show?' To have a man in the bu... RACHEL KELLER I would assume most people hate my character. But I'm hoping that I'm the character you love... CHARLOTTE ROSS I am at my core a singer/songwriter a la James Taylor or a la Billy Joel. It's not that I don... BRIAN MCKNIGHT SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR JOSH HUTCHERSON AJA NAOMI KING Then I wanted the character to be feminine as opposed to effeminate. Because it's easy to be cam... CILLIAN MURPHY For me, one thing I love is having an arc for a character. MAE WHITMAN People say 'The Wire's bleak, y'know, but I see it as a love letter to Baltimore, and it... AIDAN GILLEN FAY GODWIN OLIVIA THIRLBY SHERRI SHEPHERD CARRIE PRESTON Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill JUDE WATSON Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill ROLAND SMITH Here's the thing: I did one episode of Deep Space Nine, and I loved everybody that I worked with... ANDREA MARTIN SOURCE UNKNOWN The first thing I read was of my character on the phone talking to Sydney's fiance. Though short... VICTOR GARBER I think he's informing himself, reaching out and getting ideas and information and advice. I hav... THEODORE C. SORENSEN As a feminist, just to speak to what women go through, I think women are put in a box way too often.... KETHER DONOHUE I play a guy who believes he's a king. He's the most common man in the world; in fact his fa... JAMES CAAN I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think... JEAN CRAIGHEAD GEORGE I want to play a range, from victims to strong people, just as long as it's a well-rounded chara... BEL POWLEY After 'The Wonder Years,' I ended up having a voiceover career, which was something I never ... DANIEL STERN I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX Yes, I have two books that are about me: one of them I wrote, and the other one was written about me... EVE BUNTING DOMINIC MONAGHAN 'The Fever' is a one-person play. I decided I would perform it myself, and I decided I would... WALLACE SHAWN Anything you can do to express yourself is a form of art. That's why I love my craft so much. I ... EMILY RIOS Perhaps because my background is theatrical, I have a great affinity with the classics. Hamlet has a... ADHIR KALYAN Because I like theatre and I love a challenge. With 'ZEBRA!' I've found a new Australian... BRYAN BROWN I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no ... SAM CLAFLIN The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a chara... VINCE GILLIGAN The thing I get the most that I really love is that people don't so much mention films I've ... RITA MORENO Anyone I'm with has to love my son just as much as they love me, if not more, because I don'... BLAC CHYNA I still absolutely love 'The Sound of Music' and anything with Julie Andrews in it. KRISTIN SCOTT THOMAS ELISABETH SHUE I am a professional actress, and that is what I do. I learn about a character, and then I play that ... ZIYI ZHANG I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There... TAMMY BLANCHARD I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories... CAMERON CROWE The chance to play a romantic character who kisses somebody onscreen was one of the elements that ma... GARY SINISE The provocation with Holmes is the fact that he's described by Doyle as a man without a heart - ... JEREMY BRETT I'm usually the character people love to hate, because I used to play bad girls all the time. SPRAGUE GRAYDEN MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull ... HILARY DUFF With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-m... ICE CUBE KEVIN SPACEY RICHARD FORD ALDEN EHRENREICH ZADIE SMITH I can't play a character that I am judging. RACHELLE LEFEVRE In 'Hell Ride,' I play a biker - it's about the bikers. 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I'm not a bro. BILLY EICHNER I'm on all the apps: Tinder, Grindr, Bumble, Scruff. I have no shame about that. BILLY EICHNER I grew up in Queens, which is the most diverse borough: the rich and the poor and homeless and peopl... BILLY EICHNER A lot of comics aren't their on-screen personas; Chris Rock isn't always ranting and raving.... BILLY EICHNER I haven't done many commercials, and I'm very picky about it because it comes down to creati... BILLY EICHNER I was obsessed with award shows and made charts and graphs and stuff when I was 7 years old. I found... BILLY EICHNER Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me. BILLY EICHNER Award shows are fun but completely arbitrary and absurd. And yet, I will watch every single one of t... BILLY EICHNER Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not co... BILLY EICHNER I have a vivid memory of loving Keith Hernandez, the first baseman for the '86 Mets. I grew up i... BILLY EICHNER When I came out to my parents, I knew that they knew. My father was like, 'Are you sure?' I ... BILLY EICHNER Usually, you'll have a show like the 'King of Queens,' and there'll be one really fa... BILLY EICHNER Our new vice president, Mike Pence, is one of the most blatantly anti-LGBT politicians in the countr... BILLY EICHNER Society would be better off if Billy Eichner started getting more dramatic work. BILLY EICHNER If you're faking it, people will know, and it's going to turn a lot of people off. BILLY EICHNER I can be a bit of a nervous flyer. BILLY EICHNER The streets of New York are diverse, but when you go into a Broadway show, unless Denzel Washington ... BILLY EICHNER Jim Carrey and Steve Carell did dramatic roles. I look up to them. You want a career like that. BILLY EICHNER My favorite Tyler Perry movie? Ugh, how can you decide? For me, it's basically like: Kurosawa, T... BILLY EICHNER I did a live late-night talk show called 'Creation Nation' with friends of mine. I had a sid... BILLY EICHNER All that social media hyperbole is just so fake. BILLY EICHNER We have to remain vigilant and loud and stay consistently engaged with our representatives and the p... BILLY EICHNER Everyone's life experience is different. BILLY EICHNER For some reasons, I have WWE wrestlers tweeting me all the time. Like, my biggest fans. Why they can... BILLY EICHNER The mainstream needs Ellen DeGeneres and Rosie O'Donnell. The mainstream needs RuPaul. BILLY EICHNER You have to have a sense of humor about all of it - the Emmys and politics and everything. BILLY EICHNER Saying gay people shouldn't be the punchline is basically saying don't make people the punch... BILLY EICHNER I grew up worshipping Pee-wee Herman. BILLY EICHNER I don't want to do something that's watered down. I don't want to take what I'm know... BILLY EICHNER People going off on politics on Grindr is one of the stupidest things I've ever seen. That's... BILLY EICHNER There is no way I will survive Mike Pence doing Carpool Karaoke. What song's he gonna sing? '... BILLY EICHNER No one was asking me to be on TV. So I made my own late-night TV talk show. BILLY EICHNER I was a terrible waiter. BILLY EICHNER People come up to me all the time and say, 'I just found out about you!' Part of me is happy... BILLY EICHNER Facebook is weird. They have all of these seemingly random rules that I'm sure make sense to the... BILLY EICHNER A lot of people in Hollywood, and everywhere pretty much, operate on fear. No one wants to get fired... BILLY EICHNER There have been man-on-the-street interviews for years, but insulting people is not that funny to me... BILLY EICHNER I thought it would be funny to go to my Korean dry cleaner and ask her about my head shot, as if it&... BILLY EICHNER Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing pers... BILLY EICHNER I came back to New York after college like any number of struggling performers, and you just find th... BILLY EICHNER Probably the most common question I get is, 'Who's your dream guest?' That's kind of... BILLY EICHNER The 'Billy On The Street' persona is truly inspired by who I was as a child - obviously not ... BILLY EICHNER I would not have a career without Facebook and Twitter. That's the truth. BILLY EICHNER I was very much an only child who was raised by the television and movies, and I grew up in New York... BILLY EICHNER I only scream if screaming is deserved. BILLY EICHNER I thought I was going to be like Kevin Spacey in college. BILLY EICHNER If you really think you have something good, you can't take no for an answer. You've got to ... BILLY EICHNER This is a big step in uniting everybody. We're at our bare minimum to make this economically feasibl... JOEY EICHNER There are a handful, so far, from Palm Beach. A large segment is from elsewhere on Singer Island, wh... JOEY EICHNER I find it surprising and disappointing that somebody would bring up this issue now. It's taking a st... JOEY EICHNER BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY SUNDAY BILLY WILDER BILLY JOEL BILLY CORGAN BILLY GRAHAM BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL When I had a record deal in the '90s, that was my dream - to make an album like Barbra Streisand... BILLY PORTER BILLY GIBBONS BILLY COLLINS BILLY BEANE BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM I love the community of theater. There is something about the camaraderie: People who show up eight ... BILLY PORTER BILLY GARDELL BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY MAYS Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice. BILLY BUSH It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instru... BILLY SHEEHAN BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY SUNDAY BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY GIBBONS BILLY GIBBONS BILLY COLLINS BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL The Capone era. That was my time. Capone was a big baseball fan. He'd walk into the ballpark lik... BILLY HERMAN BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER Bud Johnson, God rest his soul of fame, a tenor saxophonist. Bud was always a big, big, big booster ... BILLY ECKSTINE BILLY CORGAN BILLY COLLINS BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY SUNDAY I've always said that you can't be the new Mel Blanc by doing Mel Blanc's voice. BILLY WEST BILLY ZANE BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY CORGAN BILLY MAYS BILLY WILDER BILLY SUNDAY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL BILLY GIBBONS BILLY CORGAN BILLY JOEL BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY IDOL BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY COLLINS BILLY MARTIN BILLY CONNELLY BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY ZEOLI BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY JOEL BILLY ROSE BILLY JOEL BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY GRAHAM BILLY WILDER BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY WILDER BILLY WILDER BILLY JOEL BILLY JOEL BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CORGAN BILLY JOEL BILLY CORGAN The public wouldn't like the perfect umpire in every game. It would kill off baseball's grea... BILLY EVANS BILLY CRYSTAL BILLY CONNOLLY BILLY CORGAN When you become famous, you start getting invites to parties where there are famous athletes and fam... BILLY BALDWIN BILLY GRAHAM BILLY IDOL I had all kinds of allergy problems with certain meats, and with fruits and vegetables with pesticid... BILLY CASPER BILLY COLLINS
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love abou... 
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I have people who love me and people that I love and a man that I love. So in that sense, I feel tha... 
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Will isn't a screaming queen - that's Jack's part. They needed someone to play the part ... 
I don't care about the length of anything I play, as long as it's a good character. 
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Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything. Once you say th... 
I love the powerful woman who's complicated. There's no push to be one thing or another thin... 
And in fact I don't believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land... 
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Character is another thing that is formed in youth and reformed in marriage. 
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I haven't scoured Dixie out of my voice. But I don't think that the books that I have writte... 
My favorite one... it's hard to pick a favorite. But the one I really love a lot is 'A Serio... 
I think I know a thing or two about the way people love, but I don't know anything about hatred,... 
A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about hi... 
One thing I've always been concerned about is the objectification of women in ads, and that'... 
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. 
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God proved His love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the wor... 
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An actor entering through the door, you've got nothing. But if he enters through the window, you... 
Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts. 
I grew up in a house of no love or emotion - it kind of sticks with you. 
There are two seasons in Scotland: June and Winter. 
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The bottom line is that any business should be a meritocracy. The best and brightest. Period. 
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If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you. 
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I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary. 
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I love it when someone insults me. That means I don't have to be nice anymore. 
Most people miss the great part mental outlook plays in this game. 
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God has a big eraser. 
Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs repairing. 
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I think if a poet wanted to lead, he or she would want the message to be unequivocally clear and fre... 