I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
BO BURNHAMThey must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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I don’t like calling myself a “feminist” only because I don’t think I’ve done anything active enough to call myself one. It’d be like calling myself a civil rights activist just because I’m not racist.
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I do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Twitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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The biggest danger, for me, with making yourself your act is that a lot of people with think they know you for better or worse. That’s an ongoing struggle with me and it can get really trippy sometimes.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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