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 BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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.
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Love is all about… whistles.
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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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For some comedians it feels so cool to be like: ‘I’ll say anything, man!’. I’m not quite there yet.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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In the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
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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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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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The strange thing with Wikipedia is that the first article that ever gets written about you will define your Wikipedia page forever.
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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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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 comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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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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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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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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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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 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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I don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
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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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