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