Louis C.K. Quotes

• 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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• There’s no such thing as a cheap laugh.

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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 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.’

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

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• 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.

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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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• Talking is always positive. That’s why I talk too much.

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• Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

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• 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.

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

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• 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.

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• Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

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

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• People don’t talk to me on airplanes.

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• Oh, I love stand-up.

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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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• 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.

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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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Louis C.K. (107)

Birth:	12th September, 1967
Nationality:	American, Mexican
Profession:	Actor, Producer, Writer

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