Quotes from Bo Burnham

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

With 'Words, Words, Words,' that show was me experimenting with something, and then there was a clear direction for me.

I'll stop when I think I'm not doing good stuff. I'll never exploit something just because people like it.

I'm just a giddy teenager who would like to break into show business any way I can.

I like to joke about being gay because it's something teenagers would never joke about.

When life gets you down, make a comforter!

I've been doin' drive-bys all of my life. Except the bullets are newspapers, the car is my bike.

I'm not as incredibly prolific as Louis C. K., and I'm definitely not doing a completely brand-new hour probably by the beginning of the tour.

Being famous is complete luck, and that's something you can't bank on.

A few people know me, and the few people that do know me only know me because they dig my stuff.

I like to inject a bit of production value and flair to comedy, or at least to my little corner of comedy.

The quality of the work when I was 16... I've had my issues with it, but I've learned to forgive myself because I was 16 years old.

Facebook became ubiquitous when I was 16, so I vaguely formed a sense of myself a little bit. I had kind of learned to think a little bit before the stuff was everywhere.

I grew up listening to Steve Martin and Robin Williams, so I didn't ever intend to be a musical comedian. I sort of stumbled into it.

I like the idea of conceiving a show and putting on a show, and especially when I got to the place where I could play theaters.

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.

I always loved bands who would try to change their sound radically album to album, experiment in one album and revert back in another.

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.

We're having a traditional Thanksgiving - turkey, mashed potatoes, hat buckles, smallpox, genocide, a blue corn moon, etc.

Happy Thanksgiving! I broke into Best Buy and stole a copy of Pocahontas to celebrate.

Happy Thanksgiving, everyone. I'm thankful for all of you. I am not thankful for the pilgrims. Buckles should never be on hats.

If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.

At once I feel that comedy is this amazing sort of transcendent thing, and I'm also open to the fact that maybe it's just an evolutionary hiccup, something that upright apes do in their free time.

I think the love-hate is fundamental. Everyone hates reality television, and everyone's watching it. Everyone hates Facebook, and everyone is on it.