I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Media is so weird; everything is so accessible now. It used to be this thing where, if you did something on 'This… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My last name has the word 'big' in it. It seems like a logical progression that if you shed away the Bir… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I was starting out, I thought I would go into comedy and there would be a mentor, like the Philip Seymour… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I would say that I love pizza so much that sometimes I eat pizza while I'm eating pizza. Like, I'm so content… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
The thing about storytelling is it's very stripped down; it's very much at the core of 'I'm a person and I'm just… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My first car was, as depicted in 'Sleepwalk with Me,' my mother's '92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Random people, celebrities of note come to your shows over the years, and I've had some really strange ones. Like the guy… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Someone said to me at a party once, 'Oh, yeah, you're a comedian? Then how come you're not funny now?' And I… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing a movie is a little bit like being back in student government and putting on the homecoming dance. You're like, 'You… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
You get to the end of something, you're laughing, you're like, 'That's funny, and that's funny,' and then you get to the… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I just like, when you look at people who have long careers in film, they're able to make films that are far… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Sometimes, occasionally, people will make out in the audience, completely not aware that there's a human being onstage just yards away from… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Once you've made your first feature, you know what you can do wrong and how hard it is to shoot a feature.… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share 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… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
My writing process is very feedback-based. When I do stand-up, I listen to the audience. I try to understand what's connecting, what's not connecting,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It's interesting how sleepwalking in a certain way becomes an accumulation of your outside stimuli that's actually there and what's happening in your brain. — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I went to the doctor, and they found something in my bladder. And whenever they find something, it's never anything good like, "We found… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
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… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
I think because I've been working in front of audiences for so many years, I'm able to take in the input, good or bad,… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
Directing your first film is like showing up to the field trip in seventh grade, getting on the bus, and making an announcement, 'So… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
