Billy Eichner Quotes

I was just a regular kid.

When I was a child actor, I had the fear that I was going to be cast as the tree.

I went on to host a kids' program from when I was around 10 until 15. In some ways I'm a child actor.

Like a heartbeat. Something inside me. Some dream. I think it's being a dreamer as a child. Dreamy kids become actors, don't they?

So as my kids will tell you, they had a pretty normal life.

I was a regular kid with a normal family life.

I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

I was brought up as a normal kid.

I never made the choice to be an actor. It just sort of happened to me when I was a kid, for whatever reasons that are irrelevant in this moment.

I liked being a kid. I liked being a student.

There's nothing wrong with making little kids happy, but there's nothing wrong with wanting to be an adult actress. I mean a grown-up actress.

Children accept their world as the world. I grew up like kids that I went to school with. Their parents were either shrinks or actors.

I was a child actor, so when I started filming when I was five years old, it was a long time ago.

Kids are more nimble than wise.

One of the things I've discovered in general about raising kids is that they really don't give a damn if you walked five miles to school.

There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

Some kids are fine, but often I don't like what I see in child actors. My kids are young and they are already showing an interest, so I have to try to discourage them, squash that in them.

As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life.

I've been acting since I was ten years old. I had two lines in Snow White and the Seven Dwarves at the community theater I was very focused and I loved it. My parents believed in the arts and being well rounded. So I played piano and violin, I danced and acted. They never thought I would go into acting though. They just wanted a well-rounded child and it was a bit of a shock to my dad when I said "I want to go to acting school" because he is a psychology professor and was thinking of something more academic.

When I make commitments I like to stick to them, especially when I'm giving back to kids. Just giving them an example of what they can achieve. I love giving back to kids. It's fantastic.

Has it ever occurred to you that parents are nothing but overgrown kids until their children drag them into adulthood? Usually kicking and screaming?

I was very, very young when I first started acting. My first movie role I was in, I was eight years old at the time. My mom got me involved in community theater stuff when I was like five or six years old. How I learned to read was by reading the captions on TV, and I grew up from a really young age watching tons of movies and television.

It's impossible to protect your kids against disappointment in life.

My kids really are my center. They create a beautiful chaos. It's always a nice chaos with them.

For children love is a feeling; for adults, it is a decision. Children wait to learn if their love is true by seeing how long it lasts; adults make their love true by never wavering from their commitment.