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" Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. "
Scott Thompson
Teaching
How
Punch
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" I won't play a teenager. "
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" Art is about the edges and the sharp corners and those places are not conducive to activism, which is about putting on a gloss. "
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Sharp
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" 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. "
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Canada
Think
People
" 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. "
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America
You
" My cancer continues to make for all kind of hilarity. "
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Make
Kind
Cancer
" 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
Up
Look
Light
" 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. "
Scott Thompson
Think
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" 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?' "
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My Life
Time
Way
" I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. "
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Nerd
Total
Fantasy
" 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
Pick
Honest
Flower
" I think Canadian humor is a little less broad than American humor. "
Scott Thompson
Less
Humor
American
" 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
Want
Everything
Said
" This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. "
Scott Thompson
People
Five
Different
" 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. "
Scott Thompson
Feeling
Feel
Judge
" 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
Think
Quality
Canada
" I wanted to be a male ballet dancer. "
Scott Thompson
Dancer
Wanted
Ballet
" 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
Wish
Me
I Believe
" People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded. "
Scott Thompson
People
Listen
Lecture
" 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
Supposed
Career
Going
" Comedy is actually very macho driven. "
Scott Thompson
Comedy
Actually
Very
" I'm not really cool, or dashing, or any of those things. "
Scott Thompson
Those
Really
Things
" In France, everyone speaks French 'cause they think it's cool. Gives 'em, gives 'em an excuse to smoke. "
Scott Thompson
France
Cool
Think
" 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
West
Crisis
Masculinity
" Writing is a difficult thing. "
Scott Thompson
Writing
Difficult
Difficult Thing
" 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
Experience
Nice
Perfect
" My theory is that comedy comes from little people. "
Scott Thompson
People
Comedy
Little
" When I was younger I wanted to be a big movie star who'd get to be funny on talk shows and then I wanted to retire and write science fiction. "
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Science
Funny
Talk
" You know what worries me? Interacting with the kids. I'm afraid that's when my Tourette's will kick in. "
Scott Thompson
Will
Afraid
You
" 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. "
Scott Thompson
Unique
Embrace
Confident
" 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. "
Scott Thompson
You
Kid
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