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 BURNHAMI’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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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