Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward. "
Louis C. K.
Growing Up
Little
Up
Related Quotes:
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
People
Power
Reality
" I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now. "
Louis C. K.
Get
Now
Right
" To me, art supplies are always okay to buy. "
Louis C. K.
Okay
Supplies
Always
" I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women. "
Louis C. K.
Better
Women
Think
" Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on. "
Louis C. K.
Popular
Audience
Being
" I could never sit down and write jokes. "
Louis C. K.
Write
Could
Down
" I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor. "
Louis C. K.
Lost
Lot
People
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
You
Sports
Writing
" 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.
Me
Friend
My Life
" I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from. "
Louis C. K.
Know
Sure
Stage
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Comedy
Correct
Even
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Endurance
You
Wind
" Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead. "
Louis C. K.
True
Almost
Dead
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Crazy
Watching
More
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
You
Always
Think
" I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed. "
Louis C. K.
Enough Time
Looking
Time
" I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' "
Louis C. K.
Speech
Hate
Stop
" To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. "
Louis C. K.
Does
Very
Great
" Oh, I love stand-up. "
Louis C. K.
Love
Stand-Up
I Love
" I love comedians. They're my community. "
Louis C. K.
Comedians
Community
I Love
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Time
Small
Memory
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Fight
Eye
Character
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Said
Sick
Woman
" 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
Go
I Am
" When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage. "
Louis C. K.
Young
Comic
Leverage
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Survive
Confident
Gay
" It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me. "
Louis C. K.
Looking
Alone
Kind
" 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. "
Louis C. K.
Future
I Can
Food
" America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out. "
Louis C. K.
America
Family
Yell
" I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. "
Louis C. K.
Lying
Years
Last