Bo Burnham Quotes:
Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.
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I’m grateful for every stupid mistake and dumb joke I tried to make.
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I would say don’t take advice from people like me who have gotten very lucky. We’re very biased. You know, like Taylor Swift telling you to follow your dreams is like a lottery winner telling you, ‘Liquidize your assets; buy Powerball tickets – it works!’
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Uncharted territory is a good place to be in.
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Territory I fully embrace myself as a hypocrite.
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Fully 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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It feels like we’re always juggling many pieces of information at once or trying out many personas at once. It makes life slightly nonlinear.
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There’s a certain line between jokes and music and poetry that’s a bit blurred in my mind.
Please don’t stick with me if I start sucking. Bo Burnham Me Start Stick Please I do weird things, and people watch.
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I don’t want to put meaning on what I do because I don’t know what it is.
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Being famous is complete luck, and that’s something you can’t bank on.
I like to call everyone that I find slightly annoying a ‘sociopath.’
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In high school, 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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You got to take a deep breath and give up. The system is rigged against you. Your hard work and talent will not pay off.
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Life, to me, doesn’t feel like a straightforward story; it doesn’t make sense for me to get up there and just tell a story. Life feels like what my show feels like: chaotic and strange and disconnected.
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You can give poor people this royal wedding to watch and make them feel good about themselves, or you can give them something useful like, I don’t know… a toaster.
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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. They must have some special kind of cereal!’ My mind was so warped by the idea of fame.
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Don’t worry, I’m hilarious.
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I became good friends with Jack Whitehall. I think he’s great, such a great dude, and really funny.
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For me, the only value a celebrity has, or any artist or actor or anything, is the things that they make, you know?
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My success, literally, is your success figuratively.
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The Internet is so crazy, and you’re exposed to so many things. In an hour, you can really jump around.
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I think I wear my hypocrisy on my sleeve. I would never say I’m not a complete hypocrite.
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Comedy should be a source of positivity. I don’t want to bully people, and I don’t want people to come to my show to feel terrible about something. So I’m actually very open to having a conversation about what I should or shouldn’t say.
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I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don’t have the nerve for it, I’m too anxious. I don’t know how you’re not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they’re real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don’t really know you, and that’s true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?
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The problem for us, as viewers, is that we want famous people who are passionate about the things they’re famous for, because that makes them worthy of the attention. But I think many of those famous people just want to be famous.
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The average person has one Fallopian tube.
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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 write about what I know: teenage dating, overly charged sexuality, all the things that make you uncomfortable.
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I didn’t want to bash young people. I don’t want to bash a kid for dreaming or wanting something or being slightly ambitious – that’s not the problem. The actual problem is with the culture surrounding him.
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People look at me and go, ‘He’s only successful because he’s got a bunch of 16-year-old girls at his back who don’t understand comedy.’ Well, they do. In any case, no one hates me more than I do; no one’s more self-conscious about that than I am.
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I’ve kind of stopped valuing laughter as the end-all measurement of what I’m doing.
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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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I think the comedy clubs tend to homogenize the acts a little bit, because they force them to be palatable in way too many environments. Bo Burnham Comedy Way Think Force 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.
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