Quotes & Jokes by Louis C. K. / page 16
There’s nothing that beats proving you’re funny by making a funny thing, and right now there are huge outlets for that, with You Tube and all the other stuff online.
I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.
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?
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 always benefited from knowing machines well, because it’s freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that.
You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'
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.
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.
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.