Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

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.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

You know, the people who do indie film and decide who gets those little budgets? They're mean, man. They're cold and very cool-oriented.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

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

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

If you're a woman and a guy's ever said anything romantic to you, he just left off the second part that would have made you sick if you could have heard it.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

I thought about going to NYU film school - that was this ideal to me. But I didn't make any kind of grades in high school.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

I don't think women are better than men, I think men are a lot worse than women.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

It's a positive thing to talk about terrible things and make people laugh about them.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

Perception is created and twisted so quickly.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

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

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

I like all ladies of all different ages.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

You can't cancel my stand-up tours. It's impossible. There's too many separate bosses. There is no 'bosses.'

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

America's a family. We all yell at each other. It all works out.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

I don't like comedy. I like funny things. I don't like comedy. Like, comedy movies are just, 'Oh Jesus.'

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

A very painful part of being a parent is having really negative feelings about your children when you love them so much.

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

There's been a lot of simple vilification of right-wing people. It's really easy to say, 'Well, you're Christian, you're anti-this and that, and I hate you.' But to me, it's more interesting to say, 'What is this person like and how do they really think?'

Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.

I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.