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I'm a compulsive everything.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Compulsive
Humor
Funny
Everything

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I think spending a lot of time with my mom, who's a talker and a storyteller, and my dad, who has kind of a soft-spoken, understated sense of humor, I think that's how I became what I am, which is sort of an understated storyteller.
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Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
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I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.
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My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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The key is to do what you love.
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What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
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I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, We found something in your bladder AND IT'S SEASON TICKETS TO THE YANKEES!!
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.
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I take the subway four times a day, or close to it. I just love the subway! My grandfather worked as an electrician when they were digging the subway.
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I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free.
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I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
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What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.
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Our fear leads us to say no all the time.
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I used to think I was a little unstable, and then I met every girl I've ever dated.
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Sometimes when my fans come up to me, they think it's going to be entertaining, like I'm going to tell jokes or do bits, and then instead of that 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.
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My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting, and then rewrite, rewrite and rewrite.
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