Bo Burnham Quotes

What I do now defines who I am as a woman and how people see me; they don't see me as a little girl.

I have a lot of stories about being a kid because it was the last time I was interesting.

I had a sense of who I was before I got famous.

Everybody perceives me because of my career that I'm a movie star, or I'm this model, but I'm still the same person I was when I was a little girl.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

But I had a strong reaction to my first three albums and I struggle with them now, as an adult. It's very much the same as looking at your teenage photos in high school.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

I love kids. I was a kid myself, once.

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

I'm quite looking forward to the fact that people know me as Richard rather than Craig.

Most of my life I didn't feel very normal. There's definitely been some moments where I feel like, all right, I've finally graduated and I'm a normal lady.

I don't consider myself a star.

As I've gotten older I look like a man, finally.

We think of ourselves as our titles or our jobs or our position in a family. We depend on being praised by others. But something happens when that praise is undermined.

One thing you have to give up is attaching importance to what people see in you.

Some people still see me as a kid, but I'm a 23-year-old woman now.

You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's cousin, I'm somebody's daughter. Who are you?' And I think that's always the challenge when you grow up in a well-known family, is ultimately, you have to face yourself in the mirror and say, 'Who are you? What have you done?'

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

Fame is a weird one. You need to distance yourself from it. People see a value in you that you don't see yourself.

As you get older, there's a loosening of the ties to the ego and the posturing of who you are and how you behave.

I paint and I draw and I write and I do other things too, and recently some people at school were asking if I'd ever publish any of my work. But I almost feel like I would have to publish it under another name because there's a definition of me out there that feels kind of stuck in the moment when it was formed.

I was a bigger-than-life persona before I was anyone in my own mind.

I haven't changed at all. I'm the same as when I was 11.

In your 30s, you are very aware of who you are and what you're confident in.