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You're a tourist in sexual perversion. I'm a prisoner there.
Louis C. K.
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Louis C. K.
Age: 57
Born: 1967
Born: September 12
Actor
Cabaret Artist
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Film Producer
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Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
Louis CK
Louis Szekely
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I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.
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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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The ability to just sit there. That's being a person.
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