“There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.”
Home
“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.”
MoviesAll Quotes by Louis C. K.
“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.”
Power“The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.”
Famous“It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.”
Alone“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.”
Experience“When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.”
Smile“It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.”
Positive“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.”
Food“I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.”
Humor“Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.”
Positive“I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.”
Failure“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.”
Movies“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.”
Sports“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.”
Computers“I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'”
Funny“It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.”
Experience“If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.”
Romantic“I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff.”
Hope“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.”
Movies“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.”
Marriage