Bo Burnham Quotes

If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

I adore doing comedy, I think it's fantastic. I never saw myself doing exclusively comedy.

I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.

I never really set out to be a comedian, but as a kid, I loved doing sketches and playing characters. And then a great friend kept telling me I should be a comedian, so I followed her advice and gave it a shot.

I always wanted to be a comedian but never thought I'd be a musical comedian.

I did years of summer stock. I sort of only wanted to be an actor. And then at 19, I was funny, and I had some of these bits that I did for friends, and I immediately could get on television.

I started in action, and then I went to comedy school.

I got into standup because I wanted to be an actor, and then I ended up loving standup for the next eleven years.

I didn't have any plan to go into comedy.

I originally wanted to be a pop star. I wanted to be Kylie Minogue. My dad thought that was a very silly ambition and introduced me to drama classes. Once I became fixated on that, there was no stopping me.

So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.

I never thought I'd end up doing comedy, but actually, it's been something I've really relished the challenge of and ended up doing quite a bit of.

I've been doing stand-up since '89.

Anybody with a sharp brain and a mic can become a comedian, but there's a need to move beyond it. The audience wants to witness the marriage of theatre, comedy and something more.

I grew up wanting to make movies, and along the way I suddenly found that I had a career doing comedy.

When I was, like, 15, I realized there could be a career in making people laugh - like, you could get paid to do it. That was insane to me.

I've always played comedy. My background is musical comedy theatre, and that's really where my training is.

Basically, I was always very interested in comedy, but I was much more sort of academic. And then, after college, loaded with my art history degree, I decided to go work at Comedy Central as a temp.

When I tell people I'm a comedian they say, 'Oh, are you funny?' I say, 'No, it's not that kind of comedy.'

I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.

Deep inside, I am desperate to do comedy.

I grew up with music hall and revue and was used to filling in the little gaps here and there to get bigger audience reaction.

I would like to get back to making people laugh. Before drama school, I did nothing but comedy.

I didn't really want to be a comedian.

I ended up going to college for visual arts but moved up to New York after I graduated from college in 2006 and started going gung ho to the Upright Citizens Brigade, and I realized that that was what I was really interested in and what I really wanted to do.