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

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

" 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?' "

" 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. "

" I won't play a teenager. "

" 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. "

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

" My theory is that comedy comes from little people. "

" 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. "

" Writing is a difficult thing. "

Difficult Thing

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

" 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. "

" I guess chemistry is just another word for love. "

" 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. "

" The gay male is always going to be at the bottom. "

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

" Art is difficult. "

" 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. "

" A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they're super macho. "

" Comedy is actually very macho driven. "

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

" 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.' "

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

" Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch. "

" 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 do love jokes. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

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