Scott Thompson Quotes

• 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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• A lot of gay men are in delusion if they think they’re super macho.

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• 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.

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

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• Fathers should start teaching the boys how to punch.

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• 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.’

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• I do love jokes.

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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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• 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.

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• Comedy is actually very macho driven.

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• 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.

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• Art is difficult.

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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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• I guess chemistry is just another word for love.

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• I wanted to be a male ballet dancer.

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• I’m a total nerd. I love fantasy.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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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.

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• I won’t play a teenager.

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Scott Thompson (39)

Birth:	12th June, 1959
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter

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