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 BURNHAMI don’t need anything as long as I have my family, friends, millions of dollars, unlimited pussy.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I’d really love to make something that doesn’t involve my stupid face.
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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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They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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“Do I really want to make a joke about a miscarriage when a woman in the audience might have had one?” I don’t worship comedy; at the end of the day I don’t fall to the altar of comedy unquestioningly.
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I thought I wanted to be a physicist in high school until I learned that there was much more math than philosophy in it. I assumed I would just sit around all day and think.
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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 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 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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I actually wrestled in high school. I was only in one match, and I lost… my virginity.
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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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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.
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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 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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There’s a metal train that a mile long and at the very back end a lightning bolt struck her. How long til it reaches and kills the driver, provided that he’s a good conductor?
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