Quotes from Louis C. K.

I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.

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

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue.

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.

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.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

If you do something and people think you're stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people.

The greatest thing about having a child is putting yourself second in your own life. It's a massive gift to be able to say you're not the most important person to yourself.

Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.

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.

Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

People say, 'My phone sucks.' No, it doesn't! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

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.'

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

You can't direct without a good crew.

I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

I've always loved boxing. It's something I've always been extremely excited about.

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.

If I owned a network, I would never let a guy just put people on without telling me who they are.

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

If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.

Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.