Bo Burnham Quotes

I hope people don't get tired of looking at me.

Being famous used to just defeat me. I wouldn't leave my house because I was worried about someone being like, 'Oh, are you Mac Miller?' and then the rest of the night I couldn't be myself.

I always have a very strong sense of shaming oneself, and you can do that a lot in the public eye, so it's best avoided at all costs I think.

What a heavy burden is a name that has become too famous.

Being famous hasn't changed my perception of myself - I've just grown up.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

As much as I'd love to be a successful actor, the thought of being recognised in the street is petrifying.

Everyone at school knew who my dad was. It made me a little self-conscious a little introverted because I had a lot of attention drawn towards me, but in a way I guess it gives you a little bit of a celebrity skin, even though I wasn't a celebrity.

Because you know when you first become famous, you start walking a little different because people are staring at you.

I was suddenly really famous, and I didn't know how to cope. I didn't know myself well enough as a person, number one, and as an actor, number two. I wanted to escape.

Most people care what people think about them... we all do.

If you see yourself in the paper every day and people keep talking about you, you will have a little breakdown in yourself, too.

Blurryface is a fictional character and a reference to insecurities, which I think all people have.

I hope people don't get bored of me. That fear is always there.

I kind of want everyone to think I'm a crazy person.

Growing up in public is especially hard sometimes.

I don't know if this is the kind of retrospective analysis that people are fond of applying to their work or actions, but it feels like I knew I was going to be famous and I knew that an element of that would be traumatic, so that if I could make myself something big and otherworldly, it would be a kind of defence.

I've worked with a lot of people who are more famous than myself who are terribly insecure.

Everyone fears rejection.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

Some girls love to go to the airport and have 50 paparazzi on them. I go to the airport and have a mental breakdown.

I think that as soon as you think of yourself as a famous person or anything like that, you're objectifying yourself in some weird way.

People care about my fame, not me. But that's fine. I have my own life.

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

What I've got to do now is let them judge me for who I am as an actor and not for my notoriety.