Quotes By Scott Thompson

Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer.

In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

When you are not treated seriously, you develop comically. Its sense of oneself is so fractured and fragile that it's like the picked-on kid who has to become funny.

I won't play a teenager.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

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.

Art is difficult.

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.

I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

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.

The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.

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.

If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.

People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.

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.'

I do love jokes.

Writing is a difficult thing.

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?'

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.

A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.

I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.

This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

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.