Louis C. K.If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.371Thought
Louis C. K.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 the… ▶371LoveTime
Louis C. K.I've been having a lot of trouble sleeping as we all should. I dunno. You don't live that long. It doesn't matter.361Philosophy
Louis C. K.Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.361Truth
Louis C. K.People come back from flights and tell you a story like it's a horror story. That's how bad they make it sound. They're like, 'It was the worst day of my life. We didn't board for… ▶362HumanityLife
Louis C. K.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. ✨ Louis C.K.… ▶351Humanity
Louis C. K....Then I got divorced and everything changed, and I became a father in a whole new way and found a whole new set of difficulties.363Time
Louis C. K.Someday, one of your friends is gonna get divorced, it's gonna happen, and they're gonna tell you. Don't go, 'ohhhh I'm sorry.' That's a stupid thing to say. First of all you're m… ▶363Truth
Louis C. K.I found out that I'm a pretty bad father. I make a lot of mistakes and I don't know what I'm doing. But my kids love me. Go figure.353Love
Louis C. K.I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.342Politics
Louis C. K.I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.342Thought
Louis C. K.Life is full of horrible mistakes.321Life
Louis C. K.It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.365Sadness
Louis C. K.Everything's amazing right now, and nobody's happy.366Reflection
Louis C. K.When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.322Reflection
Louis C. K.Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.367Thought
Louis C. K.Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t. ✨ Louis C.K.: The Proust Questionnaire. Vanity Fair Interview, www.vanityfair.com. January 2013.301Truth
Louis C. K.I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless; it goes on foreve… ▶301LifeThoughtTruth
Louis C. K.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. ✨ Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A. Interview with Scott Raab… ▶323Thought
Louis C. K.I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.367Time
Louis C. K.I don't have a brother in real life.301Life
Louis C. K.There's a reason it's called 'girls gone wild' and not 'women gone wild'. When girls go wild, they show their tits. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.291Death
Louis C. K.[about being a father] I don't really remember what it was like before. Whatever I had going on, it was bullshit. It wasn't important. It's kind of a nice thing about being a dad.… ▶291HumanityLife
Louis C. K.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 … ▶379HumanityLifeLove
Louis C. K.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.357Humor
Louis C. K.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.' ✨ That's Not Funny, That'… ▶368HumorLove
Louis C. K.The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ✨ Interview with Nathan Rabin, tv.avclub.com. May 23, 200… ▶313HumanityHumor
Louis C. K.I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. ✨ Louis C.K. on Twitter and Tracy Morgan. Interv… ▶291Humanity
Louis C. K.Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. ✨ Louis C.K.: The ESQ+A. Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com.… ▶291Death
Louis C. K.To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.324HumorLove