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" I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?' "
Louis C. K.
You
People
Window
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" People don't talk to me on airplanes. "
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" 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. "
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Small
Memory
" 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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Guy
Just
" People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not. "
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People
Saying
" There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. "
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Two
You
Decide
" I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. "
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Saying
Through
Anything
" I would rather be with my kids than anybody else. "
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Than
Would
" 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. "
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Regret
Ask
Just
" I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now. "
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Get
Now
Right
" Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. "
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Popular
Audience
Being
" 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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Crazy
Watching
More
" It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. "
Louis C. K.
Easier
Expensive
Cancel
" To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. "
Louis C. K.
Does
Very
Great
" Life is full of horrible mistakes. "
Louis C. K.
Horrible
Life
Mistakes
" I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed. "
Louis C. K.
Enough Time
Looking
Time
" 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. "
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You
Sports
Writing
" You can't direct without a good crew. "
Louis C. K.
Crew
Direct
You
" I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' "
Louis C. K.
Speech
Hate
Stop
" There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?' "
Louis C. K.
You
Think
Simple
" 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
" When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.' "
Louis C. K.
Thought
Well
Act
" 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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Just
People
Same
" The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to. "
Louis C. K.
Problem
You
People
" 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. "
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Inside
Everyone
Find
" If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. "
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Fight
Eye
Character
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Trash
Me
Want
" I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that. "
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Kids
Know
Like
" There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. "
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Home
You
Real
" I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do. "
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Every Day
Day
Full
" I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head. "
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Me
Head
Ideas