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" I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum. "
Louis C. K.
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" Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better. "
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" I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school. "
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" If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are. "
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" I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Oh, I love stand-up. "
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" 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.' "
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" A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Never
System
" I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of. "
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" I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' "
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Speech
Hate
Stop
" I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know? "
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" I was an awkward kid. "
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Awkward
Kid
" When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides. "
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Time
" To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. "
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Supplies
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" I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at. "
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Fail
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" It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them. "
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Laugh
People
" A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody. "
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" I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.' "
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" If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't. "
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Kids
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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.' "
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" To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. "
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" I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. "
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Little
Up