Quotes from Carrot Top

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'

I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.