129 Quotes by Tom Green

When I was a television broadcasting student in 1993 up in Ottawa, Canada, and my friends and I started making a show, I consciously set out to apply comedy to technology. I started tomgreen.com back in 1994, and we weren't able to put video on there yet, but we were aware that that was coming.

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.

I do sometimes find it interesting when I look at a lot of the pranks that are out there, and I see kids doing the exact things that I did in the '90s. Like, I would go out on the street on crutches and fall down, and people would help me. Or I would paint my parents' house plaid; I've seen that replicated.

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

Not many people get that chance to have multiple studios wanting you to make a movie with them.

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

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.

For about three or four years, I was in a lot more physical pain and stress than anybody knew. When I would meet people, I was kind of standoffish. That was because I was in a bit of a funk.

I don't really like to just sit down at a computer and write, because that tends to be a little forced.