Louis C. K. Quotes - Page 10

I find that when people laugh really hard, it's usually because they're connecting and identifying in a way that they hadn't considered. That's my payoff.

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.'

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

All talking is good, negative and positive. Stabbing is bad; talking is good.

When your kid is being selfish or greedy and you want to help them not be that way, you have to find a way to articulate it and inspire them.

I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.

My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they're getting. I think it's more fun to watch something when you're discovering it as you go along.

You don't look down at your feet. A lot of comedians want to look down at their feet, but you break contact with the audience.

I do love standup. I love comedians. They're my community. Also, because I know so many of them, I know the value of them. I know what they can do.

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art.

Fathers have skills that they never use at home. You run a landscaping business and you can't dress and feed a four-year-old? Take it on!

...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.

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 love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.

Spend time with your kids and have your own ideas about what they need. It won't take away your manhood; it will give it to you.

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

You know what our number one threat is? Heart disease.

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.

People don't talk to me on airplanes.

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

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.

Sometimes I just want to tell a story regardless of whether it fits what the show is saying. I’ve been in a lot of writing rooms where somebody says an idea and everyone’s dying, like laughing so they’re delirious. It’s like a black hole in a good way, everything starts to fall into it, you know what I mean.

I'm not raising the children, I'm raising the grown ups that they're going to be.

There's nothing that beats proving you're funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.

here's a huge amount of work that goes into placating a network in regular television. It's literally 70% or 80% of your workload, is showing them the material, getting their notes and presenting it to them and making sure they weigh in. It's a huge amount of work.