Louis C. K.
When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me because I like you.'
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?'
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
I'm not a political comedian. That's just not what I do.
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.
To me, art supplies are always okay to buy.
It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.
I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
My kids are really easy. I often worry that they're too easy to deal with. They're really nice people.
If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
I like all ladies of all different ages.
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 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 don't believe in this idea of, 'That's hate speech, stop it.'
I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.
America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.
You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience.
People don't talk to me on airplanes.
Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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.
I love comedians. They're my community.
I like being full, every day, with stuff that I have to do.
There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it.
I would rather be with my kids than anybody else.
To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'
I don't have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It's just me out of my head.
People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
You can't direct without a good crew.
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.
For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money.
I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.
It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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.
It's more fun to experience things when you don't know what's going to happen.
When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'
I definitely look at my body and I go: 'Yuck.'
Comedy isn't polite and it isn't correct and it isn't accurate, even. It's just a mess. So that's the way that I approach it.
Everything that people say is testable.
If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.
I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye.
I think I'm past any window where I'm suddenly going to become surprisingly ripped so that people go, 'Oh, my God, what happened to you?'
Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.
I could never sit down and write jokes.