Mike Birbiglia Quotes

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Mike Birbiglia

Profession : Comedian

Birth : June 20, 1978

Sometimes my fans are too nice.

Mike Birbiglia

I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them.

Mike Birbiglia

Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.

Mike Birbiglia

I always live tweet 'SNL.'

Mike Birbiglia

Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams.

Mike Birbiglia

Essentially, retweets are like laughs.

Mike Birbiglia

I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians.

Mike Birbiglia

I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.

Mike Birbiglia

In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness.

Mike Birbiglia

Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

Mike Birbiglia

You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally.

Mike Birbiglia

It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain.

Mike Birbiglia

I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'

Mike Birbiglia

What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.

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'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.

Mike Birbiglia

The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.

Mike Birbiglia

Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy unites, it doesn't divide!

Mike Birbiglia

Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive.

Mike Birbiglia

When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means.

Mike Birbiglia