Louis C.K. Quotes (1967-)


About Louis C.K.

Louis Szekely (born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K., is a Mexican-Irish-American stand-up comedian, who has been active since 1985.

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“Drugs are so fucking good that they’ll ruin your life.”
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“How many advantages can one person have? I'm a white man!”
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“That’s what being a parent is like. It’s like Platoon.”
“Friends should always tell you the truth. But please don’t.”
“Everything that’s difficult you should be able to laugh about.”
“I think of boxing a lot with standup. I even train with boxing trainers”
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“The meal is not over when I'm full. The meal is over when I hate myself.”
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“They charged me 15 dollars. That's how much it costs to only have 20 dollars.”
“Last week I got a flu that I caught, 'cause my daughter coughed … into my mouth.”
“I don't have a gun, but if I did, I would shoot a baby deer in the mouth and feel nothing.”
“Now we live in an amazing, amazing world and it’s wasted on the crappiest generation of spoiled idiots.”
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“Saying that something is too terrible to joke about is like saying that a disease is too terrible to try to cure it.”
“When girls go wild, they show their tits to people. When women go wild, they kill men and drown their kids in a tub.”
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“I’d love to have a shitty job. I couldn’t hold any down. Standup was the only thing I could stick with. I’m an idiot that way.”
“People say ‘my phone sucks.’ No it doesn’t! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.”
“‘Fuck it.’ That’s really the attitude that’s keeps a family together. It’s not ‘We love each other!’ It’s ‘Fuck it.’”
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“I’ve started to kind of hate people, and it’s not because I have anything against them. It’s just, I enjoy it. It’s recreation.”
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“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.”
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“Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, "Ugh" …"”
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“The hardest regret to live with is what you’ve done to hurt someone else. And I can hardly wrap my head around the scope of hurt I brought on them.”
“I have spent my long and lucky career talking and saying anything I want. I will now step back and take a long time to listen. Thank you for reading.”
“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.”
“I’m a vulgar, fucked-up degenerate comedian who did drugs. And I’m connecting with Christian mothers and fathers. I love that. That means so much to me.”
“I want to address the stories told to The New York Times by five women named Abby, Rebecca, Dana, Julia who felt able to name themselves and one who did not.”
“Trump is not your best. He's the worst of all of us. He's a symptom to a problem that is very real. But don't vote for your own cancer. You're better than that.”
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Louis C.K. on Rape

“It’s in the Ten Commandments to not take the Lord’s name in vain. Rape isn’t up there, by the way. Rape is not a Ten Commandment. But don’t say the dude’s name with a shitty attitude.”
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Louis C.K. on Divorce

“Divorce is always good news. I know that sounds weird, but it’s true because no good marriage has ever ended in divorce … That would be sad. If two people were married and they were really and they just had a great thing and then they got divorced, that would be really sad. But that has happened zero times.”
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Louis C.K. on Advertising

“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, “Wow, we can finally do this!” … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deserve everything to be perfect all the time.”
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Louis C.K. on Perfection

“It seems like the better it gets, the more miserable people become. There’s never a technological advancement where people think, “Wow, we can finally do this!” … And I think a lot of it has to do with advertising. Americans have it constantly drilled into our heads, every fucking day, that we deserve everything to be perfect all the time.”
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Louis C.K. on Economics

“I just don’t trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there’s been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there’s a part of me that goes, “This can’t be good.” None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It’s not like there’s actually more of anything. It’s just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they’re not actually producing anything, it can’t end well.”
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Louis C.K. on Capitalism

“I just don’t trust any of it. Every time I read something about how there’s been another ridiculous climb of the Dow Jones, there’s a part of me that goes, “This can’t be good.” None of this is real money. You know what I mean? It’s not like there’s actually more of anything. It’s just ideas. When people are getting richer and richer but they’re not actually producing anything, it can’t end well. Even after 9/11, during the darkest moment of our recent history, the President told us, “Go shopping.” That’s how we were told to uphold American values; go out and fucking buy more shit. So what were we supposed to do?”
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Louis C.K. on Donald Trump

“Trump is not your best. He's the worst of all of us. He's a symptom to a problem that is very real. But don't vote for your own cancer. You're better than that.”
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About Louis C.K.

Louis Szekely (born September 12, 1967), known professionally as Louis C.K., is a Mexican-Irish-American stand-up comedian, who has been active since 1985.