Bo Burnham Quotes

People automatically assume that if I get anywhere it's because of my association with X, Y or Z, or because I'm pretty.

In Hollywood you just fail upwards.

It doesn't matter what you feel - ultimately, it's what the audience feels. You can finish a scene and think to yourself, 'Oh, God. I was so deep in that moment,' and find it just didn't play. I don't know if I have very good radar about that or not.

I think what drove me insane for a long time is feeling like I hadn't earned most of what I achieved because it came so fast.

We assume that good-looking people are smarter and more effective than they really are, and that homely people are the reverse.

The most amazing thing for me is that every single person who sees a movie, not necessarily one of my movies, brings a whole set of unique experiences. Now, through careful manipulation and good storytelling, you can get everybody to clap at the same time, to hopefully laugh at the same time, and to be afraid at the same time.

Sometimes you're famous before you're good.

I'm definitely guilty of thinking something is funny but thinking the audience won't. Then three years later I will finally try it and it'll kill them. I got to give them more credit.

It often happens that people when they visit a number of candidates, and observe the one that pays special heed to their attentions, leave off visiting the others, and little by little become real supporters of this man.

I'm convinced part of the reason I got signed is because of who I am, and it makes me sad.

I normally don't concern myself with, 'Will audiences like me or like my character?'

A film doesn't exist until it meets its audience.

Any time someone achieves success before they've earned it, it always comes back to haunt them.

I've made movies where people say it's their favourite, but they don't take it seriously because it just didn't seem to break through commercially.

No matter how different a career path we choose from our parents, people will always say we wouldn't have gotten there if it hadn't been for our name. And in the end, there's no way to tell if that's true or not. Maybe it's not the worst thing for people not to see you coming. If people want to underestimate me, I'm fine with that.

It's funny to see how people react to the project, to read their thoughts, and I wonder aloud, 'Did they even watch the movie? Did they even get it?' I know we, myself and the entire cast, put a lot of heart, love and humor into 'Meet the Peeples'. I'm very proud of that film and what we were able to accomplish.

I have friends that are super talented, that are far more talented than I am in certain areas, but it just doesn't happen for them. Sometimes you feel guilty for your success because you know people who deserve it way more.

There are some directors who actually fear the possible success of music. They fear that the audience or the critics will think the film has worked because there was a very good music score.

A strange thing happens when Spielberg discusses his own work. His degree of self-criticism seems a direct reflection of each film's box-office performance. You will not catch him complaining that the audience 'didn't get' a film; if it didn't do well, it generally didn't deserve to.

Everybody in comedy has something like that happen to them: They bomb, or no one shows up. You're like, 'Hey, I'm funny, trust me!' And the world collectively goes, 'Yeah, you and everybody else.'

Not naming names, but it shocks me, some of the people who get the breaks.

As an actress, I realize that viewers are entitled to have whatever feelings they want about the characters they watch.

I was not broadcasting St. Louis Cardinals baseball because I was accomplished. I was broadcasting baseball at 21 years old because I was Jack Buck's son. I had a billion advantages.

Had I not been Roddy Llewellyn, I don't suppose anyone would have bothered to take an interest in my ambition to make a record.

Doors opened for me because of who I am. But the downside is, there is way way too much expectation from me, much more than there would have been if I were from outside the film industry.