I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
BO BURNHAMI’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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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People do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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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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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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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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