Quotes By Scott Thompson
When I found out I had cancer, I just said one thing: 'I want to hold on to life' and that changed everything for me.
Scott Thompson
In Canadian comedy, you'll almost never see guns. If you bring a gun into a scene, it's like, 'Whoa! Wow, how are we going to deal with that!' Guns in an American comedy are a given. Violence in America is used in a much more cavalier way.
Scott Thompson
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
Scott Thompson
Americans know as much about Canada as straight people do about gays. Americans arrive at the border with skis in July, and straight people think that being gay is just a phase. A very long phase.
Scott Thompson
I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.
Scott Thompson
Activism isn't about holding your faults up to the light. That's what comedy is about, it's about saying, 'Look at this person who is so flawed and frail and damaged. And we're all this frail and damaged so let's laugh at it.'
Scott Thompson
I first got into fruit when I was a teenager, when my life was changing in every way. The first time I had a mango, at like 18, I was like, 'Where has this been my whole life?'
Scott Thompson
We have been so pleased with the response to our unique schools in the Nashville area, and we are confident that other areas will embrace our concept, as well.
Scott Thompson
I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
Scott Thompson
This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.
Scott Thompson
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
Scott Thompson
My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.
Scott Thompson
I've pretty much given up on the orange. I really have. I just don't even bother. It's just either sour, or woody, or the skin's too thick. It's very nice when you come across the perfect orange, because it's really a beautiful experience. But the stakes are too high.
Scott Thompson