Billy Eichner Quotes

I don't like watching myself on TV, I don't like reading about myself.

I've never been able to control my public image.

I don't get into that second guessing of myself publicly.

I am used to looking good. In a way, if I thought I looked like the back end of a bus, I probably wouldn't have done 'Strictly Come Dancing' and gone out there in public.

It is a different breed of person who wants to be on a reality-TV show.

I have to grit my teeth sometimes, knowing I am going to be written about. But I think it is my life, and I don't want to get people interested in debating it. But I do feel that if you are going to put yourself about as a public person on a television screen, there's a curiosity.

I'm actually one of the more reluctant celebrities you will ever meet.

Sometimes it irks when people come up in the street and say, 'Oh I'm a huge James Bond fan' - when you obviously want them to be a fan of your work in particular.

I'm very expressive, but I'm also a very private person. It is so hard to be private in the entertainment business.

If I read the articles about me, and I didn't know me, I would think I was Satan.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

For me, I don't have a publicist. I don't want to talk about my personal life. I don't want to talk about my process. I don't want to be a model and do fashion shoots. It's nice to be an entertainer, but I'm a reluctant celebrity.

If the movie is good then great, but if it's not then God, I feel so bad for that person with their face fifty feet tall, all blown up. Some people would be happy with that, that as long as their face was out there they're stoked about it. I'm not like that.

The personal thing is something I have never talked about. And I never will. That is prohibited. My job is public. But that's it. When you're not working, you don't have an obligation to be public.

I'm not interested in promoting myself or revealing to total strangers anything about me. That's not my job.

I'm tired of the industry, tired of playing the whole game - the dressing up, the red carpet. I hate talking about myself.

I feel like my life is pretty much on display. So much of it is working, and that's really all I want to do. I'm an open book.

Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession.

The lifestyle that comes with being an actor in a successful TV show isn't something I gravitate toward.

Obviously I know if you're putting yourself out there, saying, 'Hey! Listen to my music!,' with pictures of yourself in the magazines, then people are going to judge you. 'I hate her music. I hate her hair. I hate her production. I hate her videos.' Fine: don't care. That's the great thing about art: it's not for everyone.

I don't know; I don't really look at pictures of me when I'm in public.

When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.

On set is where I feel comfortable. The red carpet stuff, talking about the film, explaining your own life, it doesn't come naturally. It's all necessary stuff I suppose but it's not my strength.

It is impossible to differentiate between what I say in my individual capacity from what I say as President.