Quotes from Bruce McCulloch

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material.

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party.

No, they're nice guys. They wear girdles, but they're nice guys.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.