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.
BO BURNHAMThe 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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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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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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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I know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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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 got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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