I’m interested in taboos for certain reasons. They can dramatise things and they’re scary, and they’re important to think about.
BO BURNHAMI’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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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I’m happy with what I’m doing. I try not to focus on how I’ve changed. I just try to focus on what I’m doing now.
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For me, if you distill comedy down, it is surprise and the unexpected. That has to be it on its most base level, in any form.
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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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I’m bored way too easily. I’m staring at screens half the day. I need to be overstimulated. And how will that express itself artistically?
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I’m friends with a lot of comedians, but we don’t talk about material. Most comedians I know don’t watch a lot of other comedy.
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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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I don’t try to call myself a poet. But I know that my stuff is pretty literal, in that the themes are pretty simple and on the surface.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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