Tom Green

“I'll be straight with you. It's not easy to sell tickets in Vegas. I'm up against Celine Dion and Britney Spears.”

“When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.”

“I used to love 'The Late Late Show.' It was nice to be able to be up late at night and see an extended conversation.”

“I recommend people don't get in high-profile marriages. There are a lot of people in the world. You don't have to marry someone with their own team of publicists, managers, agents, and lawyers.”

“I tend to find comedy in dark places. I also tend to find comedy in taking on the status quo - which has always been something I find important.”

“After my show and others like it began airing on TV, network executives started to see that there was a market for outrageous, over-the-top content.”

“Whenever you go on TV, there are so many checks and balances; it's a big business with a lot of rules. Stand-up is intimate and the freest, most lawless place I've ever been able to go.”

“I've always really enjoyed sounds and alliteration and funny words and funny melodies.”

“I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.”

“I do sometimes find it interesting when I look at a lot of the pranks that are out there, and I see kids doing the exact things that I did in the '90s. Like, I would go out on the street on crutches and fall down, and people would help me. Or I would paint my parents' house plaid; I've seen that replicated.”

“I used to do stand-up when I was in high school. But I was also making beats for this rap group, and when we got a record deal, I sort of stopped doing the comedy and focused on the music instead. When that ended, I decided to go back to school, take broadcasting, and start my show on public-access TV.”

“I do sometimes talk about my cancer because that's something people relate to a lot, as we're all going to die. Because I've been close to death and won, I have strong opinions about it, and I've learned how to discuss it and keep the energy high in the show.”

“I don't watch a whole lot of television, to be honest, but I do miss music videos.”

“Social media is making us more anti-social.”

“Before the cell phone and the Internet, you felt a more pure sense of liberty than we do today. Whenever you left the house, and the phone, in your kitchen attached to the wall, nobody was able to get a hold of you.”

“If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I've gone on so many shows, I've wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don't like that.”

“Certainly, every movie has to be looked at differently. But I think what happens is, every couple of years, a movie comes along that everybody then tries to copy.”

“I definitely think L.A. would be a very difficult city to move to and try to make it in. There's a lot of people down there, and it's tough to stand out in the crowd.”

“I lived in my parents' basement until the age of 25 while I was trying to get my TV show off the ground.”

“If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.”