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.
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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I think controversy has this allusion of being controversial but it’s totally not, which is why I’m trying to get away from it because it’s just easy and automatic.
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Was Einstein’s theory good? Relatively.
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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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Bitches and hoes don’t exist because the hoes know Bo’s a feminist.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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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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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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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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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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I think it’s using people, I think it’s like encouraging something that’s unhealthy, telling people you love them. “I love you.” Oh really, you love your fans?
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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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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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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 never felt like I was stealing anyone’s fans as much as I was introducing some younger people to comedy who will eventually find tons of other comedians that they love.
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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.
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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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I saw a giraffe with a short neck That was sad Or a deer
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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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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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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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