Bo Burnham Quotes

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Just the life of doing what I do, being in the public eye, it's a stressful environment... You feel strange, self-aware, very foolish. Your third eye clicks on, just to try to maintain a healthy sense of perspective, and you think, 'What am I doing here? I'm just making a movie, and people want all these things from me.'

The red carpet is really the only thing that makes me nervous.

As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

Being big and famous doesn't get you more freedom, it gets you less.

To play anybody real and famous is very scary.

A sold-out house my first night back. Do you have any idea what kinda pressure that is? I could have been at home in my warm bed, playing Nintendo.

I wanted to be a singer forever. But it's not really my cup of tea. Having the whole world know who you are.

Sometimes, at parties, people demand I tell a joke. It's like pointing a gun at my feet and telling me to dance.

When it's going well, stand-up is the best thing in the world, but when it's not, it feels like all your toes are being pulled off one by one.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

Mantle didn't want to stick out, but he did. He didn't wish to be treated as special, but he was. He was uncomfortable being the center of attention, but he was the centerfielder for the most famous franchise in sports.

Becoming famous was never what I wanted to do. There's a lot of things that come with fame - it's what people in the limelight have to do.

I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.

Sometimes being famous gets in the way of doing what you want to do.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.

I mean I was famous for nothing.

It's weird to have people just calling me Prince Charming in the street. It's a lot of pressure to walk around sometimes.

I didn't want to be a performer. I didn't want to be famous.

The airport paparazzi kind of wigs me out a little bit.

Liza is in the tabloids almost as much as our mother was. She has struggled with her own ghosts and shadows.

I thought I'd get over being insecure if I became famous, but it hasn't happened. It just gets worse, really. You get more and more on edge, more nervous. These are all the things I'm dealing with. You think if you get famous, fear will go away and problems will go away. But they don't.

I'd die if I was Madonna. I'd die. God, what a horrible way to live. And Michael Jackson! To be so famous and to feel so isolated. I feel so bad for them. I don't know how it feels, and I hope it never happens to me.

A voice is very intimate. It's something of your own. So there's always this fear, because you feel naked. There's a fear of not reaching up to expectations. As you become more famous, people come and expect to hear something extraordinary, so you don't want to disappoint them. I feel this sense of responsibility.