Scott Thompson famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gay #Thinking #July
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Beautiful #Nice #Orange
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Cancer #Want #Found
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Light #Laughing #Looks
This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things.
-- Scott Thompson

#People #Different #World
In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke.
-- Scott Thompson

#Thinking #Speaks French #Giving
Why is being outed such a big deal? When I find out that someone's gay, my respect for them increases tenfold.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gay #Increase #Bigs
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gun #Giving #Parent
My theory is that comedy comes from little people.
-- Scott Thompson

#People #Littles #Comedy
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Children #Believe #Wish
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?
-- Scott Thompson

#Teenager #Way #Fruit
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gun #America #Wow
A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gay #Men #Thinking
My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity.
-- Scott Thompson

#Cancer #Hilarity #Kind
People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
-- Scott Thompson

#People #Want #Lectures
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Thinking #Quality #Safe
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Country #Careers #Order
I guess chemistry is just another word for love.
-- Scott Thompson

#Chemistry
Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.
-- Scott Thompson

#Father #Teaching #Boys
Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.
-- Scott Thompson

#Art #Gloss #Activism
I'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges.
-- Scott Thompson

#Flower #Fighting #Bridges
I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males.
-- Scott Thompson

#Thinking #White #Males
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.
-- Scott Thompson

#Careers #Way #Wanted
The gay male is always going to be at the bottom.
-- Scott Thompson

#Gay #Males #Bottom

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