Quotes & Jokes by Louis C. K. / page 9

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Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

The Jackass movies are honestly some of the best movies I've ever seen. I laugh so hard at them. Those guys are geniuses. If they had grown up with a different group of people, they could've been performance artists at Bard College, and people would be writing papers about them.

Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.

My last name is Szekely. Sounds like Saykay. When I was a little kid I had an instructor in camp who called me Shnizneckely. He would make fun of my name and it hurt my feelings because I was a little pussy and I cried. He said, 'Well, how do you say it?' I said, Seekay. So he wrote 'C.K' on my jersey and everything. He made my name 'C.K' and I just stuck with it.

Life's too short to be an asshole, as an employer or as an employee.

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.

There's a woman I see who's not my therapist, but she's like an old friend who's a therapist in profession. She lets me talk to her like a therapist once in a while, and she does a great thing. Whenever I have a big dilemma, like this is a big problem in my life, she always says, 'Wow, you're going to have to figure that out.'

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.

It's hard to really look at somebody and go: "Hey, maybe something nice will happen." You just don't - I know too much about life to have any optimism, because I know even if it's nice, it's going to lead to shit. I know that if you smile at somebody and they smile back, you've just decided that something shitty is going to happen.

I think you have to try and fail, because failure gets you closer to what you're good at.

Being popular with an audience is a very rickety ladder to be on.

Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.

I don't think it makes any sense to try to get anyone to not talk.

Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness.