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.
BO BURNHAMTwitter is a lot like crystal meth, because it’s really fun to do and Oprah’s on it.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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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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The 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.
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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’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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How old is too old to stop believing in, like, the tooth fairy? Like 12? I’ve got a cousin who is 18… Yeah, still believes in gay marriage.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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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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