Feel Quotes

I consider Lena Dunham a comedian.

Mike Birbiglia

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Prose is all about embellishing and describing.

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I love Jimmy Fallon and Jimmy Kimmel.

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You have to be delusional to be a comedian.

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Fortunately, I don't talk about politics on stage.

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

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I just don't give off a great first impression.

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

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

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Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

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Backup dancers are completely respectable. They're the studio musicians of dance.

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Jokes are so personal, and they bring us together in so many ways.

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Once you know how to make a movie, you can't not make a movie.

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

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

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When I moved to New York, I was wide-eyed. I was nice to everyone, which comedians hate.

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

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

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There are comedians who focus on everything that is external. They focus on politics and the news, what's going on in that city and that night.

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How many people do you know who have thrown up on the Scrambler or a carnival ride? A lot of people, is the answer.

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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 down.

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When I met my wife, I was a working comic, so the first week we went out, she saw me perform, and it was very clear what I do.

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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.

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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!'

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First time films are hard. Even with some of the greatest directors, you look back at their first film, and you are just going, 'That movie is kind of bad.'

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I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me from time to time, but I just, I did not know how to respond to that.

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My wife and I always comment that our lives are relatively mundane. She's a writer as well, I'm a writer, we spend most of our time writing, and kind of going to yoga in Brooklyn.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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I would be so mad if I saw something called a memoir, and then it was Mike Birbiglia. It would be so infuriating. It's like, 'Who is this guy, and why does he have a memoir?' David Letterman could write a memoir. Joan Rivers could. I'm just a nobody. I'm a comedian and a writer.

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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.

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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.'

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It's a difficult line to tread, where sometimes you go to the movies or you watch someone do publicity for movies or TV shows, and they do all the jokes that are good in the promotion of it, and you see the movie, and you're like, 'I kind of get it already. I'm not that psyched about it.'

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I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and the woman asked, 'Why do you want to go here?' And I took out all of my comedy writing samples that I had done. I couldn't have been more delusional in terms of what I thought they wanted in a candidate for college.

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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.

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