Louis C. K. Quotes
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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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It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
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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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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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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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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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Life is full of horrible mistakes.
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I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.
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There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
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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've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.
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I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'
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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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It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
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I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
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When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
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It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
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Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
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To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'
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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.