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.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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If your belief is hateful towards people, I couldn’t respect that.
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I never said I was funny, OK, so stop staring at me.
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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If Jesus can walk on water, can he swim on land?
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I always wanted to be a comedian and actor. I basically stumbled into the music medium, though. I’m OK, but that’s about it. I like to think I’m good enough not to negatively affect the performance.
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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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The strength of comedy is I don’t have to answer to anybody but sometimes you want to learn from other people and see your ideas strengthen by other people.
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I’m also wary about the fact that if you don’t proceed with caution and understand what you’re doing, you understand these things are realities that you’re dealing with, they’re real things.
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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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I’ve been doin’ drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.
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People give me money and I don’t know why, my real collection plate is an empty cup held by a homeless guy.
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At the time of ‘Words, Words, Words,’ I’m a 19-year-old getting up feeling like he’s entitled to do comedy and tell you what he thinks of the world, so that’s inherently a little bit ridiculous.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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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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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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