Mike Birbiglia Quotes & Sayings (Page 6)

“Nothing that you want ever is what you think it is.”

“One of my favourite movies is 'Annie Hall' because it's about the silver lining of the break-up.”

“Sometimes people say, 'You're the best at digressions.' And that's actually a real compliment to me.”

“'Terminator 2' is so good. I love it.”

“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'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.”

“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.”

“If you're asked something on a movie set and you say 'I don't know,' you lose confidence in every department. What you need to say is 'I'll have that for you in five minutes.'”

“After I perform 'My Girlfriend's Boyfriend,' it takes a lot out of me emotionally; and, at the end of it, I feel like I know the audience and the audience knows me. It's this weird unspoken bond that we'll kind of always have with each other.”

“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.”