My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
BO BURNHAMWhen things [writing] are over, I always think, ‘well, I’m never going to do anything again because I have no ideas so I’m going to go be a farmer’. Or else ideas will come and and if not then I become a farmer. Hopefully won’t happen.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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.
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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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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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I’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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We’re having a traditional Thanksgiving – turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.
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