Quotes By Louis C. K.

A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.

You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.

A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

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.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

I'm enjoying the work while I get it right now.

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?'

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.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

I was a nerd growing up, and I'm a little antisocial and awkward.

There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.

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

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

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.

People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

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.'

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

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'.

When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us.

I know what it's like to have a bunch of material that's working that you don't care about. You want to die.

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.

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.

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.

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.'