Tom Green Quotes

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Tom Green

Profession : Comedian

Birth : July 30, 1971

Performing on stage is addictive. The adrenaline rush is exhilarating. When I stop touring for a couple weeks, I get antsy.

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If I ever interview somebody, I make sure I listen to them. As a comedian, I've gone on so many shows, I've wanted to take things to a crazy place. Sometimes the hosts don't like that.

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I grew up practically getting into this business because of David Letterman. I wanted to do comedy-based interviews.

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Comedy is delivered to people in the same form that music is being delivered: by YouTube. People are sharing music and comedy in the same way now.

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I think all comedy has victims, really. Even if it's not a victim that appears on camera, usually there's a victim. If it's political comedy, if you're talking about the president or whoever, there's a victim there.

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There is something romantic about the world being a diverse place, where every place has a Starbucks and Denny's.

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I'm always making micro-adjustments onstage, listening to the audience, and what a crowd is like can be infectious.

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If an audience is loud and in a party mode, that's an audience that can absorb comedy.

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When I started my show, it was a public access show in Canada, and I was a broadcasting student in the early '90s, years before I was on MTV. We were kids sort of experimenting and trying to take on the system - you know, the media machine.

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I've always had fun looking forward, seeing where technology is going, and finding interesting ways of applying that to comedy.

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Technology can't eliminate the need for people going to want to go out and see theater and standup comedy.

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I try to make a point in my life to leave the cell phone in the car sometimes, to try to unplug as much as possible.

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Drew is a wonderful woman. I love her very much. I wish our marriage could have worked out. I wish her much happiness.

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I was happy to be turning 40. It was a good one.

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I definitely think L.A. would be a very difficult city to move to and try to make it in. There's a lot of people down there, and it's tough to stand out in the crowd.

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I don't really consider myself an actor, and I don't know if I'm a comedian.

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I essentially have always directed everything on my TV show without using that title; I edited and wrote all my stuff.

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I think that young people - teenagers, college-age people, anyone under the age of 30 - know when they're being pandered to.

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Certainly, every movie has to be looked at differently. But I think what happens is, every couple of years, a movie comes along that everybody then tries to copy.

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