Louis C. K.

“I have a crazy amount of different jobs, so the way I manage that is to not do more than one at a time. It's like old computers that had small memory chips, they would do something called sw...”

“Sometimes I try to take a nap before shows. That clears my head.”

“The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.”

“I think one reason TV has always done well is because there is something comforting where you kind of know what you're going to be taken through.”

“I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.”

“I like pressure. Pressure doesn't make me crack. It's enabling. I eat pressure, and there might be times when I get a bad feeling in my gut that this might be too much, but you feel pressure...”

“You can't direct without a good crew.”

“I don't stop eating when I'm full. The meal isn't over when I'm full. It's over when I hate myself.”

“I like all ladies of all different ages.”

“A lot of TV is put together by teams, by writing staffs and several different directors. It's a great, very smart way to make television. It's worked for however long TV's been around.”

“I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.”

“When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'”

“When I got divorced, I thought 'Well, there goes my act.'”

“When I read things like the foundations of capitalism are shattering, I'm like, maybe we need that. Maybe we need some time where we're walking around with a donkey with pots clanging on the...”

“Pushing the envelope' sort of implies that you're inside the envelope with everyone else, and you're trying to find the edges on the outsides.”

“Whenever I've encountered a Christian saying, 'Why don't you stop talking like that so I can hear you?' I think, 'Well you're the one putting the earmuffs on, but I wish you could hear me be...”

“Technically, I've learned that having good legs and wind is good for being on stage. You have to be in shape and have endurance.”

“I spend enough time onscreen looking hangdog and depressed.”

“I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.”

“Some entertainers don't pay attention to what's going on around them.”