Scott Thompson

“I won't play a teenager.”

“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 wanted to be a male ballet dancer.”

“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.”

“I guess chemistry is just another word for love.”

“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.”

“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 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?'”

“My theory is that comedy comes from little people.”

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

“My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.”

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

“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 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.”

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

“I do love jokes.”

“Comedy is actually very macho driven.”

“Art is difficult.”

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