"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."
Quotes by Louis C. K.
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Louis Alfred Székely, known professionally as Louis C.K., is an American stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker. C.K. has won six Emmy Awards, and three Grammy Awards, three Critics' Choice Awards, three Peabody Awards and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. He was listed as one of Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2012 and Rolling Stone ranked him fourth on its 2017 list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.
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Louis C. K. quotes on Humor
View all Humor quotes →"It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them."
"I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'"
"I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor."
"I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'"
Louis C. K. quotes on Time
View all Time quotes →"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."
"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."
"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."
"I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called swapping, where they would fill the memory with one task, do it and get it out."
Louis C. K. quotes on Truth
View all Truth quotes →"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.'"
"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."
"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.'"
Louis C. K. quotes on Experience
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View all Life quotes →Louis C. K. quotes on Choice
View all Choice quotes →"The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to."
Louis C. K. quotes on Action
View all Action quotes →"There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it."
Louis C. K. quotes on Power
View all Power quotes →"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."
Louis C. K. quotes on Philosophy
View all Philosophy quotes →"I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women."
Louis C. K. quotes on Loneliness
View all Loneliness quotes →"It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me."
Louis C. K. quotes on Happiness
View all Happiness quotes →"When I take my kids out for dinner or lunch, people smile at us."
Louis C. K. quotes on Health
View all Health quotes →"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."
Louis C. K. quotes on Education
View all Education quotes →"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."
Louis C. K. quotes on Money
View all Money quotes →"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."
Louis C. K. quotes on Religion
View all Religion quotes →"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."
Louis C. K. quotes on Art
View all Art quotes →"To me, art supplies are always okay to buy."
Louis C. K. quotes on Failure
View all Failure quotes →"I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at."
Louis C. K. quotes on Wisdom
View all Wisdom quotes →"Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much."