Scott Thompson Quotes
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Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
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Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
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A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.
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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.
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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.
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People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
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Comedy is actually very macho driven.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
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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.
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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.
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I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.
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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.
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I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.
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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?
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I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.
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Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold.
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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.
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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.
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In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
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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.
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My theory is that comedy comes from little people.