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" 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. "

Louis C. K.

Together

Great

Moments

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

" Everything that people say is testable. "

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

" I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.' "

Louis C. K.

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" I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.' "

Louis C. K.

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" A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much. "

" Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. "

" 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.' "

" I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash. "

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Want

" It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. "

" Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance. "

" Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is. "

" I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk. "

" 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.' "

Louis C. K.

Friend

My Life

" 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'. "

Louis C. K.

Eyes

I Am

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

" It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. "

" Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people. "

" 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. "