Billy Eichner Quotes

If someone else isn't making it happen for you, make it happen yourself.

Meak's World is the world I created when I was 12, when I got into the industry. I said, 'I have to do it myself. It's not going to be given to me. It has to be Meak's World.'

If you have music you want to play that no one asks you to play, you have to go out and find where you can play it. It's called do or die.

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.

There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told, and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.

Every person who ever had a plan to do anything, and went and did it, or who laid his plan before others, and won their co-operation to do it with him, without going to external authorities to please do the thing for them, was a direct actionist.

I just got tired of waiting for things to happen through other people when so many other people are taking chances on following their dreams.

I definitely feel like I'm at that point where it's nice to not have to sit at home and wait to be invited to the party, but to be creating work for yourself.

Typically, my advice to young artists is not to wait for someone to allow you to do the thing. Just do the thing, and they'll catch up.

You don't wait for somebody to give you something. Then it's not going to happen.

I got my start by giving myself a start.

From a strictly business perspective, it's like, 'Even if you leave Eric alone, he'll do stuff. He puts his own album together, he gets his own gigs, he does everything on TV. Let him be, he's fine.'

At the end of the day, I come from a culture and an upbringing where you create your own path. There is no seat at the table for you? You create your own opportunity.

The question isn’t whether or not you should wait to be picked, the question is whether you care enough to pick yourself.

I don't think you should sit around and wait for people to give you an opportunity to express yourself or do your work, or whatever. Actors have to be producers and writers have to be producers.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Initiative is the privilege of picking yourself.

Don’t do it because it’s your job, do it because you can.

Creating my own roles, as an actor, is great. You're so at the mercy of other people, and you're waiting for a job. That's just a horrible way to live, so I just decided to take matters into my own hands, find my own projects, and create them myself, and then do other stuff that people might throw my way as well.

If you have a book to write, write it. If you want to record an album, record it. No need to wait for someone in a cubicle halfway across the country to decide if you're worthy.

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

If you want things to be right, you have to do them yourself

The goal is to be on the hook, not to let someone else do the scary parts.

Encourage members of your team to take the initiative and act on their own.

Every day is your day if you claim it. If you wait for somebody else to make it for you, you're going to be disappointed.