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

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
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Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.
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I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
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Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
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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 think the reason why I'm so alluring to networks is because on the surface I'm like a quintessential relatable, boring white guy. A great many sitcoms have been anchored by a boring white guy, so I feel like what they want to mine from me are my more generic qualities.
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...And so we go and I meet his parents. And it's a very strange thing meeting your girlfriend's boyfriend's parents for the first time. Part of you is angry for obvious reasons and part of you still wants to make a good impression. On a side note, they seemed in perfect health.
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Sex and pizza, they say, are similar. When it's good, it's good. When it's bad, you get it on your shirt.
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Elia Kazan. He wrote my favorite book about filmmaking, 'Elia Kazan: On Directing.' There is a thing in the book that I do every time, it's part of my production structure. He said when you're hiring an actor, ask them what draws them to the project, and don't lead them to the answer.
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I have this habit of asking 'why do you want to do it?' and then interrupting them to say, 'here's why you want to do it.' Because it's in the 'yes...and' spirit [rule of improvisation].
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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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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I'm a compulsive everything.
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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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My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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Some people come up to me and say You know, in Italy, it's pronounced Ber-beel-lia And I say Well, here in America, you're annoying...
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I never looked at my parents' marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, 'I gotta get me some of that!'
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