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.
BO BURNHAMI 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.
More Bo Burnham Quotes
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I love you like a gay geneticist loves designer genes.
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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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When life gets you down, make a comforter!
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What’s a pirate minus the ship? just a creative homeless guy
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I don’t want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I’m just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.
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Even if he is your friend, never, ever call an Asian person.
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I met a bipolar bear. He laughed, cried, then wanted a threesome.
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Laughter is the best medicine, y’know, besides medicine.
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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 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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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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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 do think that stand-up comedy in general heavily favors masculinity and so I like to act a little feminine onstage.
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If comedy is about surprises, about tension, there’s a lot of tension and surprise there, in the fact that people are expecting this to be natural.
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All you god damn dirty Catholics can cath-o-lick my balls.
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