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

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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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" 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?' "

" This world is filled with five billion people with five billion different ways of looking at things. "

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" Art is difficult. "

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" 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. "

" Canadian comedians are generally more well-rounded... They have to do a lot more. In order to have a career in this country, you have to do everything. And in the States you can narrow-cast, you can be just a sitcom performer or a stand-up comedian or a sketch performer. "

" I think a case could be made that there's sort of a crisis of masculinity in the West. Particularly with white males. "

" 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. "

" I'm a total nerd. I love fantasy. "

" 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. "

" 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'm not a wilting flower. I'm honest, so I pick a lot of fights. I've burned a lot of bridges. "

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