American - Comedian | June 20, 1978 -
I am intimidating no one in America. No one feels like they are below me in any way. They feel like they are absolutely either at or above my level and 100-percent comfortable talking to me.
Mike Birbiglia
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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.
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Creepy people do the things that decent people want to do, but have decided are not a great idea.
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I always live tweet 'SNL.'
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Essentially, retweets are like laughs.
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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.
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I find my fans are really funny people. Most comedians can't say that about their fans.
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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.
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Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.
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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.
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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.
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What I always studied in screenwriting from my mentor John Glavin was that the most interesting characters are characters with shades of gray.
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