I never looked at my parents’ marriage or really anyone who had been married more than 30 years and thought, ‘I gotta get me some of that!’ Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I grew up in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts and went to college in Washington D.C. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
Someone said to me at a party once, ‘Oh, yeah, you’re a comedian? Then how come you’re not funny now?’ And I just wanted to say, ‘Well, I’m just going to take this conversation we’re having and then repeat that to strangers, and then that’s the joke. You’re the joke later.’ Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
I love pizza. I want to marry it, but it would just be to eat her family at the wedding. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
My dad goes through war novels like I go through boxes of Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
The ability to workshop in stand-up comedy is incomparable to any art form, in my opinion. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
Every comedian comes to a fork in the road where they have to decide if they’re going to make jokes about other people or make jokes about themselves. I chose myself. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
My first car was, as depicted in ‘Sleepwalk with Me,’ my mother’s ’92 Volvo station wagon that had 80,000 miles on it, and I had put 40,000 miles on it, so by the time it retired it had 120,000, and I basically killed it. It served me well, and my mechanic was always very angry with me because I just didn’t properly care for it. Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you’re walking down the street. Something occurs to you, ‘Oh, no, I said that.’ Mike Birbiglia Read Quote
