Quotes & Jokes by Louis C. K. / page 16
The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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 just always loved comedy and I really wanted to be good at it. And it was heartbreaking, 'cause I started and I wasn't good at it. I was only 17-years-old, so I had a lot to learn about life in general. But I just kept on trying. I was young enough and stupid enough and I had no other choice. I had nothing else I was good at.
I've had two great years, probably five good years. So I had 20 years of just kind of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All these things. There's no way I'm ever going to catch up to the misery years. It's impossible... If I don't do anything dumb or I don't get a disease or something, and then I've got to five to eight years I think where it'll really be great and then it will start to degenerate like uranium, you know?
You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
I’ve always benefited from knowing machines well, because it’s freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.
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.
There's a reason it's called 'girls gone wild' and not 'women gone wild'. When girls go wild, they show their tits. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.
If I do something for my kids, I get a medal, because most fathers don't.
It's hard to know where your thoughts come from, especially when you have a thirst for material because you need it professionally.
I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.