"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."
Quotes by Louis C. K.
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"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 think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women."
"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."
"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."
"When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us."
"If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it."
"Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people."
"It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them."
"Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much."
"I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'"
"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."
"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 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."
"For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money."
"When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant. And you sort of get a list from her every day and you run down the list and it feels very much like a chore."
"I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor."
"I wish I could know everything ever, like that would be my wish - that's what I hope heaven is, that they tell you who shot JFK and all that stuff."
"There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it."
"When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes."