Michael Irby

Michael Irby: (when asked where he liked to disappear) The ocean. I love large bodies of water. I don't care if it's still, running, or crashing. I need to feel small, I guess. I just like that vast space.

Michael Irby: (during an interview on the AIDs crisis) I graduated in 1990 and AIDS organizations were new. HIV was still so hush-hush. In America we try to keep everything a little bit removed. We still whisper about it, 'Oh, he's got AIDS,' rather than, 'Let's talk about this.' I mean, there's millions of people dying in Africa and around the world. Then we have the Pope who just sits there and talks about safe sex like it has something to do with religion. The fact that we live in a world where we can't distribute condoms to make an entire country safe just doesn't make sense. We live in a world where we have all this information and we're just not using it. It's such a contradiction of everything. It trips me out.

Michael Irby: (about his co-star, Max Martini) My best buddy is Max Martini, the redhead. Him and I, we had a mutual friend who we'd worked with a couple years apart. She said, 'I think you guys would totally hit it off.' It took a year and a half for us to hook up but then we went down to the table reading, we figured out who we were and who the mutual friend was and yeah, it's been nonstop ever since. He's got a family too. He's just a real guy. I love everybody but Max for sure, we hang out a lot. I'll know that kid forever.