Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis. Louis C. K. More Quotes by Louis C. K. More Quotes From Louis C. K. 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. enablingcracksfeelings 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. eyerealcharacter 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. wowold-friendsdoe When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.' Louis C. K. divorcedwells Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me. Louis C. K. bitsstrangerdoe 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. recordswritingsports For my scale, how I grew up and live my life, I'm making plenty of money. Louis C. K. scalesliving-my-lifegrew-up 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. girlfriendhurtfunny 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. artistcollegewriting 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. responsibilityleaguekids When people are getting richer and richer but they're not actually producing anything, it can't end well. Louis C. K. get-richendspeople 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. rushingsadnesslucky I've always benefited from knowing machines well, because it's freedom, it gives you freedom, I always knew that. Louis C. K. machinesknowinggiving 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. stuffaverageway 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. parentfeelingschildren 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. richproudshows 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-showstwopeople 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. thirstmaterialsneeds 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-mediamadpeople Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. Louis C. K. camerascartwo
