227 Quotes by Louis C.K.

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.

I grew up in a generation that had exponential technological advances.

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.’

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

Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you’ll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that’s really hard to come back from – harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.

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

When my kids were younger, I used to avoid them. I used to sit on the toilet ’til my legs fell asleep. You want to know why your father spends so long in the toilet? Because he’s not sure he wants to be a father.

All these words we use, anybody can be a genius now. It used to be you had to have a thought no one ever had before or you had to invent a number. Now, it’s like, Hey, I’ve got a cup in case we need another cup. Dude, you’re a genius!

To me the goal of comedy is to just laugh, which is a really high hearted thing, visceral connection and reaction.