Quote

Our fear leads us to say no all the time.

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
Leads
Fear
Time

More quotes by 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
There are so many people who are clever. There are 8000 people at Princeton who are more clever than the three of us at this table. BUT, we have the ability to give something that they don't have...which is us.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
The key is to do what you love.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
What I really need is a woman who loves me for my money but doesn't understand math.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I feel that marriage can lead to the ultimate rejection and failure and divorce and things we all fear.
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
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
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.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
A girl offered me E at the club. 'Have you ever done E?' 'I watch E.'
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Awkwardness and feeling alienated are always going to be a part of comedy.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I'm a compulsive everything.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
I love pizza so much, I would marry pizza, but it would just be an elaborate ploy to eat her whole family at the reception.
Mike Birbiglia
Image
Art is socialism but life is capitalism.
Mike Birbiglia