“Comedians work great as actors because they're good under pressure. With a lot of actors, you have to make them feel like everything's going really well to get a good performance out of them. But, if you have a comedian on the set, you can tell them, 'Hey, you really are screwing this up,' and then they just get better.”

American stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker

Louis Alfred Székely, known professionally as Louis C.K., is an American stand-up comedian, actor and filmmaker. He has 106 quotes on the site. He has won six Emmy Awards, three Grammy Awards, three Critics' Choice Awards, three Peabody Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, and has also been nominated for two Golden Globe Awards. He is known for work in stand-up, television, and film, and for the wide recognition that followed his career in comedy. In 2012, Time listed him among its 100 Most Influential People, and Rolling Stone ranked him fourth on its 2017 list of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time.