Bo Burnham Quotes

When I left Yale, it was so painful to me. I had worked so hard, gotten so far, and just walked away.

I was told once if I kept breaking things on my legs, that I wasn't going to be able to walk soon, you know? I wanted to be a pro skateboarder, but it was too hard. I was trying, but it wasn't going to happen.

My England captaincy was not the England captaincy I wanted, that's what will live with me for a long time.

Ambition is a very dangerous thing because either you achieve it and your life ends prematurely, or you don't, in which case your life is a constant source of disappointment. You must never have ambition.

You have the dreams that you want, and then you have to do other jobs until you can get to that dream.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.

It was taunted as reality. It was dangled as a carrot. In terms of people's hopes and dreams, to say that that is less of a reality than the daily grind they find themselves in is maybe not correct.

I could have had class. I could have been a contender.

But I certainly know a lot of people that existed at that level and are always kind of pining for more, always thinking that the next big break, the next opportunity, the big role are just around the corner of the next audition.

When all of your wishes are granted, many of your dreams will be destroyed.

I always wished for this, but it's almost turning into more of a nightmare than a dream.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it. And when they don't come to fruition and nobody sees them, there's a part of you that dies a little bit. It's like, 'Ah! But I worked so hard!' But that's the business.

If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.

My dream was to win an Academy Award. But my other dream was to win the Super Bowl, and there's a chance that might not happen, either.

There is no way, believe me, despite my name being Winfield, and loving the game dearly. It wasn't in the cards. I didn't know what it was going to take to get here.

Some people will always be disappointed.

I didn't get into university, so I had to go to drama college!

'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.

I knew I wasn't going to be a rocket scientist - let's not be fools - but I wasn't going to be a bum.

You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.

I just have to accept that I won't ever be Al Green, which is a hard pill to swallow.

I always wanted to play in the Super Bowl. That never happened. It hurts. I'm not going to lie about it. It's reality. You deal with it.

Not being able to end the last game of my college career with a win, it really hurts.