Words matter. These are the best Carrot Top Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Some people don’t realize that I’ve had a career pre-commercials.
There’s nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.
So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.
I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.
When I was younger I always thought, ‘If I were ever a comedian I’d make it like a rock concert.’ I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.
I’ve always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I’d have to get it all together, but I’d like to go on ‘The Tonight Show’ and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.
Comics don’t like to see other comics do well.
People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.
Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, ‘No, because I’m afraid it wouldn’t look good and wouldn’t come back curly.’
Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It’s frightening. I actually look pretty good.
I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That’s the path I’d like to follow.
My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.
I’ve got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It’s love-hate; it’s sexy, but not sexy. So it’s either you get it or you don’t.
It’s our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.
I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that’s probably my biggest vice.
I didn’t really have a plan of attack when I got in college.
I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. ‘Where did you get it?’ ‘I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can’t even watch their sign?’
I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can’t cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.
I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn’t very funny.
People always say to me, ‘You’re really attractive – in an unusual way.’ No one ever just says, ‘You’re attractive.’
Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.
In movies, you don’t get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it’s good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you’re done with a scene, you’re left asking, ‘Was that funny?’
I think it’s the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people… especially comics.
Like I told Howard, I can’t help it that I’m beautiful.
My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.
When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.
I have a home in Orlando. That’s kind of my default ‘getaway’ city.
It’s weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.
I think it’s important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.
People do give me a hard time about my hair because it’s orange and it’s big.
My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.
On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I’d go back to school for the week.
I’ve experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn’t do very well. And there are times when something I don’t think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.
Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.
Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn’t that suck?
