“To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.”
Art
“I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.”
FailureAll Quotes by Louis C. K.
“For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.”
Money“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“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“It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.”
Experience“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“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“There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.”
Home“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.”
Money“When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.”
Smile“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“I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.”
Humor“I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.”
Failure“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“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“It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.”
Alone“It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.”
Positive“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.'”
Dating“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“America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.”
Family