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" The Comedy Central CDs combined with the TV specials are what led to my stuff being traded and passed around, and a lot more people knowing my jokes than I thought. "

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" Sometimes I take this women's exercise class called Core Fusion at a place called Exhale. I shouldn't say it's a women's class. There's maybe two men. "

Mike Birbiglia

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" It sounds so nerdy and pathetic, but what I always do on Sunday afternoon is bring my inbox down to zero, which is so sad. But e-mail has become like homework for adults. I'll have 141 messages from people who will be offended if I don't write back. "

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

" Nobody knows the life of the working comic. "

" I majored in screenwriting and playwriting in school - and wanted to make films as a career. But when I directed my first short in college - which was called 'Extras' - I lost thousands of dollars and made an unsatisfying and incomplete film. "

" Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature. Before you do it, you just don't know how hard it is. Once you've done it, when you're writing a second one, it's almost like you're preparing, and it's almost holding you back. "

" Dopamine is a chemical released in your brain and your body when you sleep that paralyzes your body so you don't act out your dreams. "

" I almost can't even put to words how happy I am that I got married. "

" I couldn't recommend more that people put themselves in a situation where they can see a lot of work that they admire, and for free. "

" The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short. "

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

" The one thing you're most reluctant to tell. That's where the comedy is. "

" I'm going to end up making twenty films if people let me. "

" When I go to bed at night, I wear a sleeping bag. And for a long time, I wore mittens so that I couldn't open the sleeping bag. "

" When I was growing up, I didn't know who Jewish people were, what it was to be Jewish. "

Mike Birbiglia

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" I'm unable to do the thing that Broadway actors do in plays, sometimes for years. The same exact blocking, the same exact lines. I'm a little bit uncomfortable with that. Every night I'm looking for ways to try something else. "

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

" I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding. "

" I always try to attack the most honest issues I can in my comedy. "

" I have a following, but it's small. I have this level of fame where people spot me in the airport, consistently, but they always think they're the only one who ever has. People will think they win a prize when they recognize me. "

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

" Every sleep doctor I've talked to said it was an urban legend that you shouldn't wake up a sleepwalker. All that will happen is that you will get condescended to. "

Mike Birbiglia

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Wake Up

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

" I've actually always wanted to write like a one-person show that was sort of a romantic comedy - a show that was kind of cynical about romance and marriage but ultimately embraced it. Because I feel like comedy is always cynical, inherently, because it's contrarian. "

" One of my favorite comedies of all time is 'Terms of Endearment;' that's my pace. "

" 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. "

" When you're in high school, you can't even imagine the concept of what the rest of your life even means. "

" The economy of film forces you to make choices. "

" Comedy is tragedy plus time, but the time is different for everybody. "

" You can't go to medical school and come out and be like, 'I'm going to be a dog catcher.' That would be so pointless. "

Mike Birbiglia

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