I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
BO BURNHAMPeople give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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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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“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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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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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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Squaring numbers are just like women. If they’re under thirteen, just do them in your head.
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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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Because I see that as a crutch sometimes and I want to know that I can do something funny and worthwhile without that. And also make a show that my parents would like and that kids could watch with their parents.
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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’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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And two balls minus one, six titles at the tour de France.
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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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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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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 never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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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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If you can think of all the times in your life, some of the happiest times were probably when you were laughing. And some of the worst times in your life you were being laughed at.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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I have a pretty good math mind, so I can see patterns, but I don’t have a great ear. It’s like a tragedy – I can see so much more natural musical ability in so many other people.
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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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