Quote

Eugene Mirman is the Andy Warhol of comedy. People look to him for what's next in comedy, and he emails these people back promptly. The Will to Whatevs put me in a great mood because I was laughing out loud. Alone. That's hard to do.

Mike Birbiglia

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Back
Andy
Look
Email
Looks
Loud
Hard
Mood
Great
Laughing
People
Comedy
Eugene
Alone
Promptly
Next
Warhol

More quotes by Mike Birbiglia

Image
I'm a whitebread cracker. That's my favorite white person slur: whitebread. The other day, someone came up to me and said, What's up, whitebread? And I was like, That's not even an insult. That's just my race plus a food. I can do that, too, black bean soup! Stay out of this, Asian chicken platter!
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I'm a compulsive everything.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I think Mitch Hedberg is one of the great comedians of the past 20 years.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I performed for the U.S. troops in Guantanamo Bay. And signed autographs for people who've been gone from America for so long they didn't realize that I'm not famous.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I'm a big fan of pastries the size of a baby that contain enough calories for a year. That seems like an effective use of time.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Our fear leads us to say no all the time.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I just don't give off a great first impression.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I've been selfish over the years, and other people who have made it have too, but I can only speak for myself.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
The people who are the worst at news, who kind of engage in what I call the World Wrestling of news, have kind of set the bar for where news is.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I was made to believe that my life was going to be fixed and it wasn't. I'm still the same loser who had flown to Los Angeles on my sister's frequent flier miles just six days before.
Mike Birbiglia