Quotes from Tom Green

With the long-format interview, I can get into really interesting conversations with my guests. You know what it's like to get the opportunity to speak to really interesting people and pick their brain about things. To have time to let a guest actually speak and tell a story and get into detail is really exciting.

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.

It's nice to go skating in a parking lot and hang out with people who aren't talking about their next movie role.

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.

When I was younger, I was emulating David Letterman. David Letterman would yell out of his office window with a megaphone, and the next thing I'm doing is standing on the roof of a parking garage with a megaphone.

When you get older, you look at who has power differently. When you're 21 years old, and you do something ridiculous at the National Art Gallery and get kicked out by the security guard, in your mind, you're speaking truth to power.

If YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have had a show. And if YouTube had existed in 1999, I wouldn't have wanted to do the show, because I couldn't imagine clips from it following me a decade later.

Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.

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.

All comedy is really talking about social issues and things that are affecting our lives.

How can we be free when we are prisoners to social media, in a world without privacy? How can we be free when our every movement is tracked and every conversation is recorded and can easily be held against us? How exactly are we free if we are tethered to our cell phones?

I don't want to make fun of somebody because of the way they look, where they're from, or their religion.

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

Yes, I worked hard to put together an experimental show on a budget of zero. But I was not being exploited by anyone. I was in charge.

I was happy to be turning 40. It was a good one.

I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

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

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

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

When I started doing stand-up again, a lot of it was coming from an angrier place, and I quickly learned that doesn't spell a good time in a comedy club.

Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.

There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

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.

I'm incredibly proud to bring back 'Tom Green Live' for a third season on AXS TV. AXS TV's commitment to unique, out-of-the-box humor, in a completely open and uncensored format, is unparalleled.