Louis C.K. Quotes

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

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

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.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

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

Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff.

I have a lot of beliefs, and I live by none of them - that's just the way I am they make me feel good about who I am.

I've started to kind of hate people, and it's not because I have anything against them. It's just, I enjoy it. It's recreation.

Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.

When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the sides.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

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

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

The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

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

We have white people problems in America. You know what that is? That's when your life is amazing, so you just make stuff up to get worried about.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

Performing comedy, you develop a rhythm of ideas and laughs. I live for it.

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

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 don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

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

You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.

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.

When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

Sorry - Americans only buy things that come from suffering. They just enjoy it more when they know someone's getting hurt.

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.

I love comedians. They're my community.

When I am in a hotel, and I turn off the lights and the TV, I just freak out. I turn the TV back on and don't get any sleep.

You can't direct without a good crew.

I don't have a brother in real life.

If you had a jetpack you'd be like I have the shittiest jetpack. Who's your service provider on your jetpack? Did they make the new one? I hate this thing.

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.

I wish I could [keep a journal]. I have a lot of journals with one page half written in. I sometimes will write myself a quick email on my Blackberry when I think of something.

You can do eight things. We got it down to eight for you.

It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.

Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian.

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

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.

I just love learning. I think learning is how you live. The verb of my life is learning.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

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.

I don't feel those limits when I'm on stage. For some reason, audiences let me get away with things. Remember, it's all comedy. Words. Thoughts. All thoughts are safe and worth exploring.

...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.

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

I could never sit down and write jokes.

Everything that people say is testable.