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.
BO BURNHAMDo unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
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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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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 love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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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I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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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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