For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. Louis C. K. More Quotes by Louis C. K. More Quotes From Louis C. K. There's no real preparing at home for stand-up. You just go and you just do it. Louis C. K. preparing real home I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure when you're not doing something, you know? Louis C. K. enabling cracks feelings If you're a cartoon character or most TV characters, sure, you'll fight, because the punches are juicy-sounding and they don't leave marks. But in real life, if somebody punches you in the eye, it doesn't make any noise and your eye is swollen for, like, six months. It's a nightmare to get punched in the eye. Louis C. K. eye real character 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.' Louis C. K. wow old-friends doe When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.' Louis C. K. divorced wells Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me. Louis C. K. bits stranger doe Breaking records is not something you expect to be doing. That's like a sports thing, it's not usually a comedy and writing thing. Louis C. K. records writing sports I was talking to my friend and he said his girlfriend was mad at him. I said, "What happened?" He goes: "Well, I guess I, uh... I guess I said something, and, uh... and then she got her feelings hurt." That's a weird way to phrase it: "She got her feelings hurt. I said something, and then she..." Could you more remove yourself from responsibility? "She got her feelings hurt." It's like saying, "Yeah, I shot this guy in the face, and then I guess he got himself murdered. I don't know what happened. He leaned into it." Louis C. K. girlfriend hurt funny 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. Louis C. K. artist college writing I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is. Louis C. K. responsibility league kids When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well. Louis C. K. get-rich ends people Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness. Louis C. K. rushing sadness lucky I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that. Louis C. K. machines knowing giving Most Americans have so much crap, that you could lose most of it and still have way more stuff than the average Canadian. Louis C. K. stuff average way 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. parent feelings children Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road. Louis C. K. rich proud shows There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say. Louis C. K. tv-shows two people 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. thirst materials needs I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad. Louis C. K. social-media mad people Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. Louis C. K. cameras car two