Billy Eichner Quotes

The funny thing is, because I was doing a lot of theater when I was a kid, and a lot of that was musical theater, as I got older I became more interested in acting as a separate entity and music as a separate entity, like songwriting and production and recording and playing music.

Actors are the only honest hypocrites.

I do some acting. And there's a difference between "I do some acting" and "I'm an actor."

I really like to work with theater actors. Theater actors tend to do lots of independent movies, and those are the actors that I like.

I have some friends who are actors. I've watched them work. And I would say that of all the arts, acting is the most grueling, thankless. Never apologize for your work.

I'm not an actor, and I'll never call myself an actor. I've never thought of it as part of my life. I'll always be a singer, in my eyes.

I wanted to be an actor. Maybe a comic actor, but an actor. That's what got me into acting was putting on an act, because in life, I wasn't funny and I felt on stage or in the movies, I could do whatever I wanted to. I was free.

Acting is like an addiction - once you start, you can't stop.

I like to work as an actor. Not just for money, but because I really enjoy acting.

I don't consider myself much of an actor. I have a face and a voice that allows me to do certain things, but there are people who are way better at it than I am.

Acting is something that I've done since I was so young. I always felt - certainly as a teenager - really cynical about acting. I definitely didn't feel like it was something I wanted to do, and so I really took it for granted.

I auditioned for a play in fifth grade, and that's when I knew that I wanted to be a singer and performer.

I teach musical theater three days a week at the school that my wife and I graduated from.

I'm happiest when I'm acting, and I've dedicated my life to it. Still, as much as I love acting, at the end of the day, I want to be remembered as a great person, first, and as a great actor, second.

Doing theater is like walking a tightrope without a net.

My mom (Kate McCauley) is an actress, so I guess she's the one that taught me it was a possibility. For as long as I can remember, I've always played make-believe ... It's something that I've always done, that I've always been comfortable doing.

I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

I never, ever wanted to be an actor.

I've always been into theater and movies. When I was in school, I did a monologue for my talent show. I would go to the local theater. I was always in dance. I was always performing. That was always my thing.

A ham is simply any actor who has not been successful in repressing his natural instincts.

All I knew how to do was to act. That's the only thing I had in my favor. That was the thing that propelled me forward.

My education began in theater school, and it continues to this day. I just continued learning to be a better performer.

Theater acting is an operation with a scalpel, movie acting is an operation with a laser

I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.

Normally when people ask me what I do I say I'm an actor, and that's what I always wanted to be and that's the way I approach work even when I'm directing it.