I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
BO BURNHAMThe 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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Women are like puzzles because prior to 1920 neither had the right to vote. Puzzles still don’t.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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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 got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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Do you guys like impressions? “Why?” That was Socrates.
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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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I get more ass than a giant donkey stable.
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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’m not a grown up until everybody realises I’m a grown up. When everyone remembers me as the dirty kid singing little songs I am the dirty little kid.
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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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