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 BURNHAMThe world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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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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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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I work really hard on the shows and I think the shows speak for themselves. I don’t want to construct the show to prove something.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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It’s not most important to communicate myself on stage as it is to be as funny or interesting as I possibly can on stage.
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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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I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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