Quotes By Scott Thompson

I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

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.

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.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

Well I think comedy everywhere has lost a bit of its bite. In Canada, I can't argue with the quality, but it feels like it's gotten a little safe.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

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.

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.

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

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

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

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.

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.

I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.

I resented that my career wasn't going the way that it was supposed to. And I was angry that I wasn't getting the parts that I wanted.

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.

When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction.

You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in.

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.

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.