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.
BO BURNHAMIn the distance, Bo saw a fairy. A fairy so beautiful that he felt proud of being called one in highschool.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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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 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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Where are all the sour patch parents?
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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 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 met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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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 love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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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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Poverty. Racism. Isn’t it strange, only the homeless are begging for change?
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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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