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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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I thought if I could do stand-up comedy well enough, I could parlay it back into films - like Charlie Chaplin and Woody Allen did. They merged principles of comedy and drama together, and that's what my first film really was, a stab at that kind of comedy.
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Does anyone know a word that rhymes with shark?
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I think our culture views success as visibility, being seen as being successful. Whereas I've learned that success is rooted in helping and connecting to other people, and knowing where you can contribute. I've kind of spent my thirties doing that, because in my twenties I was seeking any kind of success.
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In our culture right now, I want to take on this notion of what a singular success means. We think success is one thing, but it's actually a spectrum of where our life takes us.
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I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
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I figured out in my thirties it was about 'what can I contribute'? And what I figured out about that is creating something from scratch, and connecting it to people.
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Falling in love is a completely transcendent experience. It's like eating pizza-flavored ice cream
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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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Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
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I feel like people have more in common than the news reports.
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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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...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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You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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Saturday night is perfect for writers because other people have plans.
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So I went to a club the other day, which is timely because my self esteem had been hovering right around 'normal' and I had been meaning to knock it down to negative 1000.
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My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
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Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
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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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Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.
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