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.
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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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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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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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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My work is trying to at least define myself on my own terms, and then if other people enjoy things that’s a lovely addition.
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Drugs kill, just like cancer. So don’t smoke… tumors.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It’s much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it.
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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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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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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 know it’s the comedian’s instinct to say, “Do it, man, nothing’s off-limits! It’s cool, bro!” I don’t know if that’s the answer for me.
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My persona is most importantly just to communicate the material in a way that is most funny and meaningful in the moment. It’s more like a character that’s sculpted for whatever joke needs communicating at the moment.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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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.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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I believe, firmly, that women are always right. Ah, I should actually rephrase that: I… don’t.
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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 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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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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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When I see someone filming me, I don’t usually think, ‘No, man, don’t put this up online!’ I’d think, ‘Hey man, you don’t get to go to shows very often, put down the camera and enjoy it!’ I love going to theatre and to shows so much.
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