Bo Burnham Quotes

It's hard to articulate how I think about myself as a public figure.

I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go "ugh." I wouldn't like her either. It's so unlike what I think I am or what my friends think I am.

I'd like to get my public image nearer to my reality. People have a lot of misconceptions.

I suppose there must be some way in which I'm compelled to show some side of myself - or of people - that's paranoid and fraught and beleaguered and downtrodden, just as Tom Cruise wants to show that he's terrifyingly upbeat and terrifyingly heroic all the time.

The truth is that sometimes it is hard even for me to recognize the Hillary Clinton that other people see.

I was Mr. Olympia and everywhere I went I had to project this image. After some time you start wondering what part of that is really you and which bit you're doing because it's your job.

I think what people see in me is one slice of who I am. It does permeate my life in the sense that I don't like to be told what to do, or how to be, or how I can do it. But I'm probably a lot tamer than people would expect.

Sometimes when I go out on the road, I feel almost embarrassed or dismayed because I can't be the image of what kids want me to be. So I just try to be myself, and usually that works out OK.

I don't consider myself enigmatic, but I don't spend a lot of time thinking about my public persona.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

People who don't know me, how will they know what I am really like? They will only see me on the field, only see me in an advertisement. People who know what kind of a guy I am will tell you I'm a very open person.

I am trying to do my own thing, but there will always be comparisons, even if I don't agree with them.

When you become a slave to a public persona and don't feel comfortable without it, it becomes a shield, and it shouldn't come at the expense of your self-worth.

I often don't feel like the person I look like.

I could easily not be the person that people know.

I don't think I'm portrayed in the media the way I really am - but then who is?

Who you are vs. who you wish you were: Who wins?

We must not allow other people's limited perceptions to define us.

I always knew who I was, but everyone else wanted to me to be their 'idea' of the 'right' artist. At times, I even believed them.

I wanted to change my name when I first started because I thought, 'No-one is going to believe that it is my name.'

I'm definitely not trying to go out of my way to create my own image or ensure my own imprint.

My image is a media-built image. I'm not what my image is.

That image of who I was publicly was so solidified. You're that person. And it wasn't even close to a true representation of where I was in my life.

'Places to Go' is something that I would never normally write because I would usually be worried with what people would think about me.

I enjoy being myself on television, where I am not enacting a character.