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Success is fleeting. It may not have to do with you but how your work is received.

Mike Birbiglia

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Mike Birbiglia
Age: 46
Born: 1978
Born: June 20
Actor
Comedian
Executive Producer
Film Director
Screenwriter
Stand-Up Comedian
Fleeting
Received
Success
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Work

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All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.
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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.
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I've read that Steven Wright's style was born out of genuine nervousness.
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I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
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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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Sometimes, when you want to be in a place so badly, you'll do anything.
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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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Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.
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The key is to do what you love.
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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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