If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
BO BURNHAMIs there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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The thing is, I was on YouTube like the golden era, I think. Before ads came in, it was really cool back then.
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The world doesn’t need any more hot chicks or tough guys or smooth talkers – the world needs more you. And don’t let anyone tell you otherwise.
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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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I feel more like I’m doing a play whose main character just happens to share my name.
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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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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I’m going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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I got a safe full of cherries ’cause I pop it and lock it.
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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I’m a stand up comic and I always sit and slouch, and I got my girlfriend pregnant on my sterile uncles pull-out couch.
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I remember being superyoung, like nine or ten years old, and thinking, ‘Man, I wonder what famous people eat for breakfast.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone’s watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.
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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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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 met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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I think comedy has a range, with multiple peaks in different areas. It’s like trying to compare Beethoven and the Beatles. Sometimes I hear from people, ‘I think you try too hard in your comedy.’ And that’s what I worry about.
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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Postmodern comedy doesn’t work well with very old audiences, because it’s making fun of the comedy they enjoy.
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I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.
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I just think they aren’t true. I’m saying that our generation wants stuff that is substantial and challenging, as well as thoughtful and endearing. Well, I don’t know if I’m doing that, but I’m trying.
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I love you just the way you are but you don’t see you like I do. You shouldn’t try so hard to be perfect. Trust me, perfect should try to be you.
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