Scott Thompson

“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.”

“My parents won’t let me have a motorcycle, but they give me all the guns I want. I asked them for a motorcycle last Christmas and they told me I’d only kill myself. They got me this twelve-gauge instead.”

“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.”

“The water cleansed his soul of the clutter and junk he had acquired through advice from those who were loud, but wrong. Many who had claimed to be wise had filled him, like so many others, with fear, hate, and judgement - all emotions that could not be carried be carried into Eternity.”

“In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.”

“Writing is a difficult thing.”

“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 think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.”

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

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

“If comedy duos don't like each other, it just won't work.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.”

“A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.”

“Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.”

“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 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.”