Quotes & Jokes by Louis C. K. / page 10
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.
It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.
"I'm bored" is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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.
I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.
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.
Well, when I was younger, I lied all the time, because once you understand the power of lying, it's really like magic because you transform reality for people.
A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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.
