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The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.

Louis C. K.

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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
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Stand-Up Comedian
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Louis Székely
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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.
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There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'm really curious about that. I'm really curious about what people think they're doing when they're doing something evil, casually. I think it's really interesting, that we benefit from suffering so much, and we excuse ourselves from it.
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When I see two guys kissing, I'm like, how come I can't kiss one of those guys? They look like they're having a good time.
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You would never do stand-up without an audience. I mean, no one would even consider it. It's like they're the instrument you're playing.
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I'm bored' is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you've seen none percent of.
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When you have bacon in your mouth, it doesn't matter who's president.
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In 27 years doing this, I've seen a handful of truly great, masterful standup sets. One was Tig Notaro last night at Largo.
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Very few American parents give a crap about how they raise their kids. They put minimal effort into it. Who told you it's a good idea to buy a developing mind a video game?
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Human kindness has no reward. You should give to others in every way you see. expect absolutely nothing from anyone. It should be your goal to love every human you encounter. All human suffering that you're aware of and continues without your effort to stop it becomes your crime.
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When a person tells you that you hurt them, you don't get to decide that you didn't.
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Anytime you see a bit where some stranger does something to me, it's me.
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You can't direct without a good crew.
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I can't just sit on my daughter's bed and just say 'n---' all night and then put her to sleep. I just ain't gonna do that... I told the girls that these boys are racists, and they're not nice boys. But I think we can still enjoy the stories about the fishin' and the tradin'.
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What happens after you die? Lot's of things happen after you die - they just don't involve you
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I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
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I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don't want to be alone for a second because it's so hard.
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If the whole country had to have the same conversation that was safe for everybody, it would be a pretty awful place to live. There wouldn't be a conversation.
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