Louis C. K. Shows Quotations

Either I'll never get rich from the show but remain intensely proud of the work and stand behind every second of it, or it catches on and I'll make my money down the road.

I've always got the road. Stand-up makes you so autonomous and self-sufficient that it really helps with that part of show business.

It's easier to cancel a show if it's expensive.

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.

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.

The only road to doing good shows, is doing bad shows.