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The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.

Louis C. K.

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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
Comedian
Dancer
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Showrunner
Singer
Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
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I've had, what, two years? Probably five good years. Before that I had twenty years of uncertainty and suffering and ego destruction and poverty. All those things. That'll always outweigh the good times.
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I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
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It's kind of awkward to eat alone in a restaurant because everybody's looking at me.
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I finally have the body I want. It’s easy, actually, you just have to want a really shitty body.
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My uncles were all funny. My dad wasn't funny, but my uncles were all funny. Now I go back and I like him better than them, they were manipulative funny.
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Feeling unsure and lost is part of your path. Don't avoid it. See what those feelings are showing you and use it.
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I've had soccer moms come up and tell me they can relate when I say that I want to throw my baby in the trash.
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I do feel a lot of times like I'm out of my league with my kids in terms of what my responsibility is.
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Everybody is different. Some comedy is more musical like Steven Wright. His is a pillar of comedy to me. He invented a whole form and all his jokes are poems. So it's different. I wanted to do it like George Carlin. Now I do it like me.
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You can't direct without a good crew.
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The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.
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Here's how my brain works: It's stupidity, followed by self-hatred, and then further analysis.
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Stereotypically speaking feminists can't take a joke. ::audience boo:: See?
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I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.
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If you're older, you're smarter. I just believe that. If you're in an argument with someone older than you, you should listen to 'em ... even if they're wrong, their wrongness is rooted in more information than you have.
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I love stand-up more than anything, and I'm so happy to have found a way to use it in the show.
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When you're a father in a marriage, you sort of become the mother's assistant, and you sort of get a list from her every day, and you do, you know, you run down the list, and it feels very much like a chore.
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The last jobs I had were fixing cars and covering football games for a local access tv station. As in driving the mobile van to the field, setting up 3 cameras, teaching depressed grownups and interns how to use them and directing the game from the van and then wanting to kill myself.
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If you have something to say, here's what you do: You write it down on a piece of paper, you go out in the lobby, and then you go home and you kill yourself.
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People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.
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