Louis C. K. Quotes

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Louis C. K.

Profession : Comedian

Birth : September 12, 1967

I don't know what it's like to be an actor, where if your show gets canceled, really you're just a bum.

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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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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.

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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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Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.

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When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.

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Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'

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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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I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.

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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.

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To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.

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

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

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My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.

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

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I like all ladies of all different ages.

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The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

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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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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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