Bo Burnham Quotes

I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.

You know, there's nothing you can do about your public image. It is what it is. I just try to do things honestly. I guess honesty is what you would call subjective: if you feel good about what you're doing, yourself, if you figure you're doing the right thing.

I just never want to do anything that's going to compromise what I do. It would have to be a song where there would be honest discussion about something.

It doesn't matter even if I am slow or fast as long as my films are honest and carries my integrity.

I've failed a million times on stage. I've listened to notes that I knew weren't right. I've pitched ideas and let other people change them, knowing that it was the wrong choice. The question you have to ask yourself is: How do you want to fail? Do you want to fail in a way that feels like it respects your tastes and value system?

I didn't want to do the whole, get the hottest person thing. I wanted to make sure every record felt right.

Any song I don't feel good about, I shelve. Anything you ever hear me sing, it's because I want to.

When I'm dying, I want to think I did what I felt was best for the words I was writing. This may mean, at any time, that I won't be publishable anymore.

I don't have this feeling like, 'Oh, I want to live in the United States and make movies and become famous just because the money is here.' I like to make movies that tell stories that I care about.

Never play anything that don't sound right. You might not make any money, but at least you won't get hostile with yourself.

I just don't think that I could be the kind of actor I want to be and not be honest with myself. Honesty is very important to me as an actor and as a person. I didn't even think about it.

At the end of the day, I'm not a bad person; I don't hurt anyone.

I used to get in trouble with my old agent, because I've never been driven by fear or need or greed. I want my work to represent me as a person, so I can be quite fussy.

If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

If I like it, it's gonna be on my album. You can't please everyone.

You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.

Well, I'm still looking for Maurice Ashley. My essential qualities. I think that more than anything, I try to do the right thing, I think about doing the right thing.

One of my proudest moments is I didn't sell my soul for the sake of popularity.

While I have made errors that I deeply regret, I have never, ever done so with the intent of subverting the law or of benefiting myself.

I cannot do a film I don't believe in, however safe it might be.

People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.

The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.

You can't make your choices based on what critics think. You have to make your choices based on what's honest for you.

I strongly believe in my own rights and wrongs and impose them on myself and my family.