227 Quotes by Louis C.K.

I’m close to my audience. I think I have more tools in my box than other guys who might try it. Also, I know how to do this stuff. I know how to write and shoot and edit. I’m technically adept and that helped with the website. You need a big skill set.

I’ve had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That’ll always outweigh the good times.

I’ve always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

It’s kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody’s looking at me.

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.

I do feel a lot of times like I’m out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.

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

What we’ve done with our modern food supply is absolute insanity. It’s not even real any more. You used to be able to give a kid an apple and they would love it. Kids can’t even taste apples any more. Apples taste like paper to kids now.

The thing is, comedy’s gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.