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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. "
Louis C. K.
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" Oh, I love stand-up. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.' "
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" When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage. "
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" 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. "
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" 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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" To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction. "
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" It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally. "
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" It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. "
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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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" 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?' "
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" There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. "
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" 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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" When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore. "
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" There's no such thing as a cheap laugh. "
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" 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. "
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" 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 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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" 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 tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard. "
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" 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. "
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