Louis C.K. - People Quotes

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Well, I think likability is an overused word. I don't watch people 'cause I like them; I watch them because they're compelling. Sympathetic is a little different … Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.

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Credibility lasts about two cycles of bad material, and then you'll probably never get it back. If you let people down, that's really hard to come back from– harder than climbing from nothing to something, even.

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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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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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I remember the day I saw my hair was thinning. I don't remember caring much. I don't care. It's just hair. It never bothered me much. I was pretty young, too. And it happened and is happening veeery slowly. I have a feeling dead people get really mad when we complain about losing hair.

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It's been a very old thing for people to gather together and laugh at stuff. The first comedian in America really was Abraham Lincoln … He used to go to a pub near where he lived and stand in front of the fire and he packed the place every night and he would just talk and bust everybody in their guts. He was just a hilarious speaker and that's what he did.

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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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People say 'my phone sucks.' No it doesn't! The shittiest cellphone in the world is a miracle. Your life sucks. Around the phone.

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Twitter and Facebook and MySpace; all that stuff makes you warped. We've all basically given ourselves data entry jobs. I've actually heard people say things like, Aw shit, I have to update my Twitter. Really? You have to? That's a big priority for you?

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