Top 33 Scott Thompson Quotes

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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?’

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

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.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

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

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

Writing is a difficult thing.

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

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.

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

I’m a total nerd. I love fantasy.

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

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

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.

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 do love jokes.

I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

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

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

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

My theory is that comedy comes from little people.

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.

Comedy is actually very macho driven.

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.

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.

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