Louis C. K. Quotes

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
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Alone, Looking, Everybody

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

Life is full of horrible mistakes.
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Life, Mistakes, Full

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.
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Life, Witness, Possess

Most people are dead. Did you know that? It's true, out of all the people that ever were, almost all of them are dead.
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True, Dead, Almost

Oh, I love stand-up.
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People don't talk to me on airplanes.
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People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
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Successful, Saying, Special

Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.
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Trying, Find, Else

Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.
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Around, Attention, Pay

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

Before, Try, Sometimes

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.
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Good, Learned, Wind

The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
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Give, Same, Movie

The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.
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Famous, Problem, Choose

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

There's no such thing as a cheap laugh.
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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.
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To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.
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Laugh, Goal, Comedy

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

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.
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Sleep, Off, Turn

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

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.
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Time, Around, Read

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.'
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Women, Dating, After

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.
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Food, Future, School

When you're young as a comic, you don't have a lot of leverage.
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Young, Comic, Leverage

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: September 2, 1967

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