William Frederick Burr, also known as Bill Burr, is an American comedian, director, actor, and podcaster born on June 10, 1968.
His stand-up comedy specials include 'You People Are All the Same', 'Why Do I Do This?', 'Paper Tiger', 'I'm Sorry You Feel That Way', 'Let It Go', 'Walk Your Way Out', and 'Live at Red Rocks'. For 'Paper Tiger', he was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.
For the dark comedy series 'Immoral Compass' (2021–present), he was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award: Outstanding Actor In A Short Form Comedy or Drama Series.
Bill Burr Motivation Quotes
Bill Burr initially rose to fame for his recurrent role in the second season of 'Chappelle's Show'. He later became a fixture on Conan O'Brien, Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel because of his hilarious style of illogical reasoning!!!
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"I wish they would teach it in schools: Give people the belief that they are going to do well. A lot of people are really talented and scared to follow their talent because you don't know where it's going."
"I like finding stuff that I stink at and trying to get better. So I'm taking classes, getting myself comfortable in an acting scene. You've got to work out those ticks."
"You got a million dollars of technology just looking back at you like, 'You got me, buddy. Which is pretty amazing because I have all the words'."
"Deny your emotions and act like you have answers."
"You have to understand how bad I wanted to be a comedian, how much I loved doing it. I still can't believe I get to do this for a living and have people come up and want to see me."
Funny Bill Burr Quotes
All Things Comedy (ATC), founded by Bill and Al Madrigal, is run and owned by comedians, providing each one the chance not only to produce the material they find hilarious but also to possess a portion of the company that produces it.
"Like most comics, I tried to come up with a sitcom idea that was based around my life. And it didn't work out. But maybe because it didn't work out, that's why I ended up on 'Breaking Bad;' I don't know."
"I just do my act. If people in England don't get my joke I make fun of myself for telling it."
"I'm an idiot, basically. I don't think that I'm a dumb guy, but I also realize that I have access to about 0.1 % of the information that I need to have a truly informed opinion about half the stuff I talk about."
"God's everywhere, but I gotta go down (to church) to see him? Really? And he's mad at me down there, and I owe you money?"
"For instance, standing up used to be really hard for me. I act much better if I'm sitting down."
"Did you ever spell a word so bad that your spell check has absolutely no clue what you're trying to spell? What do you end up getting? You end up getting, like, a question mark?"
"The Giants beating the undefeated Patriots, that's all a joke. The star of a reality show is going to run the country."
"I think the fear of humiliating yourself on stage always motivates me to give at least 90 %."
"I think it's hilarious the way Obama is depicted post-presidency. He's always kayaking or playing jai alai like he's some retired athlete or something. Like he wasn't doing the exact same thing everybody else was doing."
"... Or you can let those thoughts take you right down the rabbit hole."
"I've definitely been guilty of leaning on the mic stand, but you can only do that so long before you're like, "Jesus, I'm bombing". The fact that people pay to come see me, that's really just out the window."
"Really? Is it long enough to go around both our necks and the chimney so we can tandem jump off of this?"
"The guy who decided if Bret Michaels or Cyndi Lauper would make a better CEO for a company that doesn't exist is going to be running stuff."
"Oh look an ATM! Ok here we go! I lost all my money, now what do I do? Get a gun! Rob a casino! Good idea! Look at all the lights! This is beautiful."
"Let's go to Brunch. What a great idea! Why would you want to sleep in on a Sunday when you can go pay $18 for eggs? Now, you're thinking."
"I'm always looking at new ways to tell a joke so that it doesn't get stale while working on new jokes every night or I would go absolutely crazy."
"Once you do a joke and it works it's only good for so long, like shooting fish in a barrel."
"I just want to go in there and talk about what's bugging me."
"I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if you piss me off, I can be one of the meanest, most sadistic people."
"I'm not going to lie. I am a psycho. Luckily, I get most of it out on stage."
"You probably need 1/10 of the world's population for us to continue to exist. There's just too many people."
"A plumber doesn't change the way he plumbs when he has a kid. You're a comedian. This is your style."
"You have to somehow get us from 7 billion people to... I don't know what the magic number is, but I imagine at some point, that will happen. And I don't know about you, but I don't think I'm making the cut."
Brilliant Bill Burr Quotes
Besides appearing in several episodes of the popular Comedy Central program 'Kroll Show', Bill Burr gained praise for his recurring appearance as Kuby on the AMC television series 'Breaking Bad'. He contributed to the 2012 and 2011 ESPYS and appeared as a guest on 'New Girl' on Fox TV in 2013.
"Comedians have the ability to feel other emotions."
"I challenge you to do that as an adult. All your IDs, all your credit cards – just run out of the house with no phone, turn the corner where you can't see your house, and not have a full-on panic attack."
"Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy."
"There is NO reason to hit a woman!"
"I've found that by doing stand-up, I've actually learned how to combat depression. I don't have clinical, but I've definitely had my bouts with it."
"I love doing radio, and I love doing stand-up, obviously."
"You're in control of your brain. When your brain is sending you bad information or bad thoughts, you can decide to go to the gym, or write a new joke - or if you're on the road, go to a ball game... something that's going to get the blood going."
"Everyone should just drive out to the Mojave Desert and just experience it, and it's a fun place to live."
"Look how long it took to build the Freedom Tower, and we wanted that. It took 15 years."
"Rich people never go to war. You ask a college kid to go to war, and he's like, 'Umm, I'm taking this sociology class, and I think war is, like, really silly, and my roommate's, like, half Afghani, so it's going to cause some static'."
"If you try to deliver a funny line in a funny way, it comes out as wacky and you ruin the scene."
"I was scared. People were expecting me to be funny. I gotta be honest, every time I walk into a club, it's that same fear."
"I think it's a privilege to be able to fly to somewhere where people want to see my show."
"I still remember the first gig where I got people going, it was Rascals in New Jersey, and the place was packed."
Bill Burr Quotes On Relationships
Bill's Monday Morning Podcast is an impromptu, twice-weekly tirade that has become one of the most popular online comedy podcasts. Bill launched the podcast in May 2007. Bill opposes organized religion and thinks our money should be put back on the gold standard.
"I'm not easy to live with. My wife is a saint."
"You're a kid, your whole life is awesome. It's awesome, right? You had no money, no ID, no cell phone, no nothing, no keys to the house. You just ran outside into the woods. You weren't scared of nothing."
"You know why men make more money than women? Because, in the unlikely event that we're both on the Titanic and it starts to sink, for some reason, you get to leave with the kids and I have to stay - that's why I get the dollar more an hour."
"I gotta be honest with you. I'm kind of jealous of the way my dad gets to talk to my mom sometimes."
"Where are all those old-school women you can just take your day out on? When did they stop making those angels?"
"If I get married I get a tax break, if I have a kid I get a tax break, if I get a mortgage I get a tax break. I don't have any kids and I drive a hybrid, I think I should get a tax break."
Bill Burr quotes about Movie, Podcast, and Theater
"You start in bars and then restaurants, then you want to get into comedy clubs where you feature, then you headline, and once you sell out clubs, you're into theaters. I've been able to get there, and it's cool to do that."
"I love making movies, and being in any that I can be in. I'd like to be in those giant movies, as the fifth or sixth lead, and have three or four killer scenes. You don't have the responsibility of the entire movie being on you. I like those roles."
"Working on the Dave Chappelle show was amazing."
"I do my podcast on Mondays for a specific reason. A lot of people go to work and don't like their jobs. If you give people something to laugh about, it's good."
"It's a great time to be a comedian because you've got so much more control. You can say what you want to."
"Watching 'Donald Trump' get the nomination for the Republican Party is the most astounding thing I've ever seen."
"At least Hillary's 'Clinton' is a politician, but the fact that you've got a guy from a reality TV show! I have to say, out of everything I've ever watched in sports, the greatest comebacks ever."
"When I watch 'Breaking Bad,' my stomach is in knots."
"My favorite part of podcasting is running my mouth for an hour. The only time I don't like it is when I'm off. Then that hour feels like a day and a half."
"Most of the podcasters were morning guys who were fired when Clear Channel decimated the radio landscape."
"Acting in a sitcom or a comedy movie is like a comedy routine with the setups."
"People make a big deal about podcasts but it's basically an online radio show with the sound effects and sidekicks, but because you can curse it's more like satellite radio."
"I keep doing specials because I think there are a lot of people who make movies and TV who are fans of comedy - if they start to like you, they'll get a project going and call you in."
Bill Burr quotes about life
"I think in the old days with the studio system the performer was a bit of an afterthought. You can be a wildcard on the internet. But if you put something on the internet once it's out there it's out there for life."
"A lot of my fears and anxieties are the fears and anxieties of a six-year-old boy. When I finally confront them, they're really small."
"The only time I get sick of making people laugh is when I'm in a non-writing-joke mode, and I just can't seem to come up with anything new that's funny. That's a tough place to be as a comedian."
"There are no winners in this election 2016. I paid attention to it for about two months and then it just started to depress me."
"I'm like that loud guy in the bar, who kind of makes sense for about ten minutes, and then you realize he flunked everything at high school so you just laugh at him."
"What happens is when you have a kid, you are a unique human being, so you are going to have a unique experience. No one can really tell you what you're going to feel."
"The first night you walk down to a comedy club, at least for me, I had my voice, and then I went on stage, and I lost it."
"I'm thinking of all these unbelievable comedians I've seen on HBO: Chris Rock, George Carlin, Damon Wayans, Richard Pryor, and Billy Crystal. I started having a panic attack seeing my name in that list of people. It was pretty overwhelming."
"Like when I finally got away from the east coast for a while, and I came back there was just this underlying anger that I never noticed before because I was born there and just dropped right into it."
"If you get a chance to go outside of the country, you start examining where you're from and some of the thought processes."
"As far as my mindset changing, I see myself having more empathy in my older age."
“I used to think you had to live this miserable life and that would make you funnier, but you don't. The misery will come. The misery will find you.”
