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If you can survive disappointment, nothing can beat you
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
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Stand-Up Comedian
Television Actor
Tecamac Municipality
Louis Székely
Louis CK
Louis Szekely
Disappointment
Survive
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Nothing
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There’s a need to perfect things in a writers’ room, and that can take a lot of fun out of a show sometimes. It’s a struggle. It depends on your personality. Some people love working with a writing staff. I had a great writing staff on Lucky Louie, but it sometimes felt like Congress or something.
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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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I could never sit down and write jokes.
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I get mad like anybody else does, but being able to laugh about getting mad is very healthy, and my kids know that.
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A household name is like ketchup. Everybody wants ketchup. Ketchup doesn't hurt anybody.
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You know when you see a mother someplace just melting down on her kid? She's like, 'Shut up, I hate you, you're ugly!'... Any parents there are thinking, 'What did that shitty kid do to that poor woman? That poor woman. I wish I could help.'
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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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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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God is like a shitty girlfriend.
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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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Kids are like buckets of disease that live in your house.
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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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The part that's difficult is being single, at 41, after 10 years of marriage and two kids. That's like having a bunch of money in a currency of a country that doesn't exist anymore.
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I do actually use a boxing trainer when I train for stand-up.
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My show is sort of a short-film anthology, and I'm able to tell little stories that don't necessarily carry a whole episode in terms of narrative. I like the audience not being sure what they're getting. I think it's more fun to watch something when you're discovering it as you go along.
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Talking is always positive. That's why I talk too much.
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One time I was at a swimming pool with my kids, a public pool. I had my daughter, my six year old, on my arm like this. She was like clamped on, and she's kicking. ... And then she got off and another random child just clamped on. It's like a rat. Get off of me. But I love you. I don't know you, kid.
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