Louis C. K.
Louis C. K.
Louis Székely pronounced , known professionally as Louis C.K., is an American comedian, actor, writer, producer, director, and editor. Born in Washington, D.C., C.K. moved to Mexico City as an infant and learned Spanish as his first language, learning English once he moved back to the U.S. at age 7. He began his career writing for several comedy shows in the 1990s and early 2000s for comedians including David Letterman, Conan O'Brien, and Chris Rock. Also in this period, he was...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionComedian
Date of Birth2 September 1967
CountryUnited States of America
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.
I don't care about the weight. You know, I'm lucky; I'm one of those people - I can eat donuts, whatever, and I just get fat.
Don't text or Twitter during the show. Just live your life. Don't keep telling people what you're doing… also it lights up your big dumb face.
Young people don't even consider that it's a good idea to be out on the fringe, which is where good ideas come from.
People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.
The only pitch I have to movie people is the same as this one: Just give me $8 million. I'm not telling you what it's about and I'm not telling you who's in it.
There's two kinds of press that you get when you put out a TV show: The reviews, and the people that just decide what the reviews say.
I'm not motivated to entertain people through Twitter, so just by having Twitter and not saying anything, I make people mad.
I look around, pretty much 100% of the people driving are texting. And they're killing, everybody's murdering each other with their cars. But people are willing to risk taking a life and ruining their own because they don't want to be alone for a second because it's so hard.
I've met a lot of people who've lost their jobs and they still have a sense of humor.
The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness.
Some people think it's demeaning to victims if you ever say anything out-loud about sexual abuse of children. I don't know if that's true.
The problem is, the more famous you get, the more people see you who didn't choose to.