Quotes By Louis C. K.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

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.

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.

I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.

It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.

I like all ladies of all different ages.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

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.

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.

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.

I've tried to do away with lying in my life in the last few years, but it's hard.

To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.'

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.

I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.

I don't have a brother in real life.

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.

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?'

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.

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.

I could never sit down and write jokes.

I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.

I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.

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.'

I don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'