Louis C. K. Quotes And Sayings

Talking Is Always Positive. That's Why I Talk Too Much.

I Definitely Look At My Body And I Go: 'Yuck.'

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.

A Very Painful Part Of Being A Parent Is Having Really Negative Feelings About Your Children When You Love Them So Much.

It's Hard To Know Where Your Thoughts Come From, Especially When You Have A Thirst For Material Because You Need It Professionally.

Oh, I Love Stand-up.

When I Am In A Hotel, And I Turn Off The Lights And The Tv, I Just Freak Out. I Turn The Tv Back On And Don't Get Any Sleep.

I Like All Ladies Of All Different Ages.

A Lot Of The Struggle I Had With Movies Is I Really Loved Moments And Tones And Feelings In A Scene, And I Loved Creating Those, But I Never Really Had Great Stories To String Them Together.

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.

Life Is Full Of Horrible Mistakes.

For My Scale, How I Grew Up And Live My Life, I'm Making Plenty Of Money.

I Have A Crazy Amount Of Different Jobs, So The Way I Manage That Is To Not Do More Than One At A Time. It's Like Old Computers That Had Small Memory Chips, They Would Do Something Called Swapping, Where They Would Fill The Memory With One Task, Do It And Get It Out.

There's A Woman I See Who's Not My Therapist, But She's Like An Old Friend Who's A Therapist In Profession. She Lets Me Talk To Her Like A Therapist Once In A While, And She Does A Great Thing. Whenever I Have A Big Dilemma, Like This Is A Big Problem In My Life, She Always Says, 'Wow, You're Going To Have To Figure That Out.'

The Thing Is, Comedy's Gone In A Weird Direction. People Are Really Into Ironic Comedy And Fakeness And Cleverness.

Anytime You See A Bit Where Some Stranger Does Something To Me, It's Me.

Everything That People Say Is Testable.

I've Tried To Do Away With Lying In My Life In The Last Few Years, But It's Hard.

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.

I Never Viewed Money As Being 'My Money' I Always Saw It As 'The Money.' It's A Resource. If It Pools Up Around Me Then It Needs To Be Flushed Back Out Into The System.

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.

I'm Enjoying The Work While I Get It Right Now.

Being Popular With An Audience Is A Very Rickety Ladder To Be On.

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?'

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.

To Me, It's Very Exhilarating When Somebody Else Does A Great Thing, And It's Not Me.

I'm Not Sure Why I'm So Often Disgusting On Stage. I Don't Always Know Where It Comes From.

I'm Not A Political Comedian. That's Just Not What I Do.

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.'

When I Was First Divorced, I Started Dating Younger Women, And It Was Really Exciting. But After A While I Was Like, 'This Is Just Dumb.'

It's Easier To Cancel A Show If It's Expensive.

I Do Feel A Lot Of Times Like I'm Out Of My League With My Kids In Terms Of What My Responsibility Is.

It's A Positive Thing To Talk About Terrible Things And Make People Laugh About Them.

My Kids Are Really Easy. I Often Worry That They're Too Easy To Deal With. They're Really Nice People.

You Know, The People Who Do Indie Film And Decide Who Gets Those Little Budgets? They're Mean, Man. They're Cold And Very Cool-oriented.

If I Do Something For My Kids, I Get A Medal, Because Most Fathers Don't.

People Don't Talk To Me On Airplanes.

There's Two Kinds Of Press That You Get When You Put Out A Tv Show: The Reviews, And The People That Just Decide What The Reviews Say.

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.

You Have To Be Aware Of Who You're Talking To In An Audience.

I Don't Have A Room Full Of Writers Pitching Ideas. It's Just Me Out Of My Head.

I Don't Like Comedy. I Like Funny Things. I Don't Like Comedy. Like, Comedy Movies Are Just, 'Oh Jesus.'

I Think You Have To Try And Fail, Because Failure Gets You Closer To What You're Good At.

You Can't Direct Without A Good Crew.

I Like Being Full, Every Day, With Stuff That I Have To Do.

If I Owned A Network, I Would Never Let A Guy Just Put People On Without Telling Me Who They Are.

Sometimes I Try To Take A Nap Before Shows. That Clears My Head.

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.

I'm Not Motivated To Entertain People Through Twitter, So Just By Having Twitter And Not Saying Anything, I Make People Mad.

I Could Never Sit Down And Write Jokes.