When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
BO BURNHAMI love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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 have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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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.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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When 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.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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Love is all about… whistles.
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The strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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