Quotes By Louis C. K.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

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.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

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.'

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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'.

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.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

I like all ladies of all different ages.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.

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.

My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

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.'

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.

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.