227 Quotes by Louis C.K.

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.

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

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.

Black people have slavery. And white people have our own thing-stuff we went though that hurt us that we have to cope with. Like when they took our slaves away. That was really hard for us. So it’s pretty even.

I don’t have a room full of writers pitching ideas. It’s just me out of my head.

Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don’t watch people ’cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different. Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

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 hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.

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.