Quotes from Scott Thompson

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.'

I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor.

I think the Canadian sense of humor is dryer than America's and juicier than Britain's. I think it's a cross between the two of them, really.

You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in.

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.

I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

I do love jokes.

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'm a total nerd. I love fantasy.

My feeling with my characters is that they all have a right to feel exactly the way that they do, so I never censor them. I don't judge them.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss.

I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things.

Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.