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.
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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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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Women are like fingers and toes because they’re easy to count on.
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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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What’s that? My six song album entitled Bo Fo Sho is currently available on iTunes? With three songs that have never been heard on the internet? Uh, and if I try to pirate it for free I’ll get AIDS? I would have guessed scurvy. Well, see you later ghost of Dr.Martin Luther King Jr.
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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 feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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Comedy is the one absolutely self-aware art form. Actually, hip-hop’s another one, I suppose. Because in your songs you’re talking about how good a hip-hop artist you are. It’s like a painter painting a panting of himself painting a painting.
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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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I just try to do things on stage that I think the audience would enjoy. And I try to draw on and add to acts that I’ve enjoyed watching.
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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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Poetic talent is really easy to fake when thy sentences doth no f-king sense make.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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I chose to do comedy instead of going to college.
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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’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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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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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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