Louis C. K. Quotes
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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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To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.
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A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.
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It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
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Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, 'Ugh'.
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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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When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'
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Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing.
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Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.
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Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
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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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A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.
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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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The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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You can't direct without a good crew.
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There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
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I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
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Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'
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I grew up watching all these crazy movies, European movies and stuff, and I guess that I always laughed at things that were a little more offbeat.