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?
BO BURNHAMPeople do complain about the way I act on stage… They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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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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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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I’m gay for Jesus, fill me with your grace. Pour your love all over me, but please aim away from my face.
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And if ten percent of men are gay and twenty percent of men are Chinese, what are the odds that a men chosen at random spends his free time and mealtime while on his knees.
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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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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You love the people that give you money and attention? Of course you do, that’s not selfless that you love your fans, that’s ridiculous.
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If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I’d still say no.
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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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Do unto others as you would have them do to you, said the rapist.
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Is there anything better than pussy? Yeah, a really good book.
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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’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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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
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For fifteen cents a day you can feed an African, they eat pennies.
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