Life isn't something you possess. It's something you take part in, and you witness. Louis C. K. More Quotes by Louis C. K. More Quotes From Louis C. K. It's just a big excuse to say awful things. Louis C. K. awful excuse bigs Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from - harder than climbing from nothing to something, even. Louis C. K. climbing two people 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. issues fall thinking When I was a kid there was a show called 'Holmes & Yo-Yo' about a robot cop. I LOVED that show and I think it only lasted like three episodes. Louis C. K. robots kids thinking It’s been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln. He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that’s what he did. Louis C. K. fire night america The earliest stand-up comedy I was aware of was Bill Cosby. I watched Saturday Night Live as soon as I was aware of it, and Monty Python used to be on PBS at weird hours, so I used to try to watch that. And I loved George Carlin on SNL, that was the first stand-up I ever really remember seeing on TV. And then Steve Martin. I guess I was in fifth or sixth grade when Steve Martin showed up, and he was instantly my idol. And Richard Pryor around the same time too, I sort of became aware of him, though I don't remember the first time I saw him. Louis C. K. pbs idols night It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive. Louis C. K. easier ifs shows Life is full of horrible mistakes. Louis C. K. horrible life-is mistake Well, I think “likability” is an overused word. I don’t watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different... Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows. Louis C. K. tv-shows character thinking To me, comedies are usually the least funny movies. Movies that are actually a comedy are usually not all that funny. To me Goodfellas and Raging Bull are two of the funniest movies I ever saw. Louis C. K. bulls saws two My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes. Louis C. K. careful regret wife Plenty of crazy people in New York. There are so many crazy people here, I think it's like one out of every one person is completely out of their mind. Louis C. K. crazy new-york thinking I can feel how an audience is reacting when I'm on a stage, but when you are on stage, your perception is distorted. That's something you just have to know. It's like pilots that fly at high Gs and they lose, sometimes, consciousness and hand/eye coordination and they just have to know that that's going to happen. They have to be trained to not try to do too much while they are doing that. So when you are on stage, you have to be aware that you are wrong about how it feels a lot of times. Louis C. K. perception eye hands I learned that money can be a lot of things,It can be something that is hoarded, fought over, protected, stolen and withheld. Or it can be like an energy, fueled by the desire, will, creative interest, need to laugh, of large groups of people. And it can be shuffled and pushed around and pooled together to fuel a common interest, jokes about garbage, penises and parenthood. Louis C. K. creative laughing people I don't have a brother in real life. Louis C. K. real-life real brother I never viewed money as being 'my money' I always saw it as 'the money.' It's a resource. If it pools up around me then it needs to be flushed back out into the system. Louis C. K. pool saws needs To me, it's very exhilarating when somebody else does a great thing, and it's not me. Louis C. K. exhilarating great-things doe If you do something and people think you're stupid, just go for crazy. You get more respect that way because nobody likes stupid people. Louis C. K. crazy stupid thinking People don't talk to me on airplanes. Louis C. K. talk-to-me airplane people I am really tired of looking at my hips. I'm seriously really tired of standing naked in the mirror and staring at my hips for hours and hours while muttering, "You hips. You hips need to get it together." Louis C. K. tired mirrors thinking
