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.
BO BURNHAMFor some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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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 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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The classic comedian says there’s nothing that’s taboo; if you laugh at one thing you’ve got to laugh at everything, that comedy is taking people to dark areas and showing them the light.
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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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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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 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.
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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I’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.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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