Louis C. K. Quotes
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I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'
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America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
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Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.
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I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.
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Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
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Life is full of horrible mistakes.
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Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
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Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.
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You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
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My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.
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I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'
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Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
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It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
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Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
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My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.
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I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
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If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
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It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
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You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
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When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
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There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.
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The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
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I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.