Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
BO BURNHAMThere’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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Then the challenge is, once you left brain it and build it, then when you’re on stage you have to know it so well that you can get lost in it. I don’t want to be onstage looking like a robot,
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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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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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 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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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 think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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I worked eight hours a day just so I could get into the college of my dreams and say that I got in – and I never went.
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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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