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" In terms of comedy, there was a Seinfeldian era of comedy that I love but got played out. Seinfeld was great, but then after him it was people acting like Seinfeld and making observations that we felt like we'd kind of heard before, and then you're seeing Seinfeldian comedy in commercials. Suddenly everything is observational funniness. "

Mike Birbiglia

Comedy

Acting

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" Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage. "

" I end up talking about really mundane things with my fans, and then they're kind of like, 'This is boring. I want to go talk to somebody else.' I think I bore my fans to death by over-talking to them. "

" If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy, and I've got four feet of cotton candy all around me that I've got to break through, like a brick wall or a fortress. "

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" I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C. "

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" I sometimes think of not doing Twitter or Facebook anymore, but that's how people find their favorite bands and comedians. "

" I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans. "

" You know the quickest way to get comedians to hate you? Do Letterman at age 24. "

" People come to my shows on purpose as opposed to coming to a 'comedy show.' Which was always my goal. "

" I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer. "

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" Once you start writing something obsessively, it's almost like someone has to rip it from your hands in order for you to put it down. "

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" Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You put up the streamers, and you hire the DJ, and you get the punch bowl.' Some people are just like, 'This dance sucks.' And you're like, 'No no, this dance is awesome!' You have to be really positive. "

" I love 'Bullets Over Broadway,' but I'm pretty sure Woody Allen hasn't killed somebody. "

" I've yet to write a stand-up show that isn't autobiographical. "

" You don't really see sleepwalking in films that often. It's weird; I feel like in popular culture we have the perception of sitcom, arms-in-front-of-your-body sleepwalking, and then maybe Olive Oil and Popeye when she sleepwalks through the construction site. But it's all very cartoonish, in some cases literally. "

" Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is. "

" Growing up, I was discouraged from telling personal stories. My dad often used the phrase 'Don't tell anyone.' But not about creepy things. I don't want to lead you down the wrong path. It would be about insignificant things. Like, I wouldn't make the soccer team, and my father would say, 'Don't tell anyone.' "

" The moment I walk into a room, I have kind of like the Terminator's tracking system for where the food is, and I can get there immediately. "

" I gravitated toward stand-up because there's no overhead. I mean, literally, there's no overhead: Often, you're outdoors performing in front of groups of people. "

" If you tried to sell Mike Birbiglia as a concept, no one would buy it. "

" I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood. "

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" My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. "

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" I'm generally so disoriented during the week about what I'm doing and where I am - I travel a lot - that when I'm home on a Sunday, I typically try to sleep in as much as I can. "

" Prose is all about embellishing and describing. "

" I like 'Donnie Darko;' it's a cool take on dreams and sleep. "

" Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance. "

" I think your tendency when you play yourself is to accentuate something about you that you think is the funny thing about you. "

" Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from them, who can see them. Sometimes people think that you're on television while you're onstage, so you're not even a person. "