Quote

You can express love by calling out the truth out of the situation as opposed to dancing around it.

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
Calling
Situation
Around
Truth
Love
Opposed
Express
Dancing

More quotes by 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
Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
It had that kind of open-ended fear to it - like that feeling you get when you're driving and you see a cop. And you're not speeding. You don't have drugs. But you're just thinking, I hope he doesn't notice I'm driving.
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
Image
I actually love 'Saturday Night Live,' like a sports fan watches their favorite team to see how they're doing. I know the players and the writers, I've known several people on that show for a number of years.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I like 'Donnie Darko' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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
Image
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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!'
Mike Birbiglia
Image
My family isn't really Italian. We're more like Olive Garden Italian.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
The list of fun and easily fixed brain diseases is very short.
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
How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
You can always tell who went to catholic school, because they're atheists.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Life is unfair and improv is a great metaphor of that.
Mike Birbiglia