Carrot Top quotes:

I love to shop, especially in retro stores. I have about a million pairs of old-school sports shoes like Adidas, so that's probably my biggest vice.

I was the class clown at school, but at home, my family wasn't very funny.

On the weekends, I would go down and play these clubs in Key West or West Palm Beach or surrounding areas of Florida and then I'd go back to school for the week.

I'd love to be animated. I've always wanted to jump off of a bridge and not be hurt, like Bugs Bunny.

I've always wanted to do a segment on a talk show. Jay Leno has been such a good friend, and if he would allow me, I'd have to get it all together, but I'd like to go on 'The Tonight Show' and do a set with no props. Or come out with a trunk and never touch it. Or come out with a clear trunk with nothing in it.

I would like to be someone like Steve Martin. That's the path I'd like to follow.

Carrot Top is a nickname that people call me and I thought that it was more marketable.

It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people.

Everybody has their own style. If you went to the movies every week and everybody acted the same way Tom Cruise did, boy, wouldn't that suck?

I have a home in Orlando. That's kind of my default 'getaway' city.

It's weird, I never wish anything bad upon anybody, except two or three old girlfriends.

I had a Neighborhood Crime Watch sign in my dorm wall in college. People would come in and laugh at it. 'Where did you get it?' 'I took it. How good is their Neighborhood Crime Watch if they can't even watch their sign?'

I always thought marketing in general was an interesting kind of thing. I always liked commercials and billboards.

I do go through a mini depression because one minute there are people yelling and screaming for me on stage and the next I'm at home and it's dead quiet. So it takes a while to come down.

Before I got addicted to comedy, I was seriously thinking about playing tennis full time. I joined the tennis team and played with a lot of professionals.

I've got the long hair and kind of androgynous look. It's love-hate; it's sexy, but not sexy. So it's either you get it or you don't.

People do give me a hard time about my hair because it's orange and it's big.

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

I think the more you do this and the more comfortable you become on stage, you start speaking more and becoming more of a character in yourself.

I have to go out for lunch and dinner because I can't cook. I need a woman to come and save me from my cooking.

I always make fun of KISS because I don't particularly think their music is anything.

In movies, you don't get reactions: Live, when you do a joke, you know in a second whether it's good or bad. But in a movie, since no one is allowed to laugh or do anything, when you're done with a scene, you're left asking, 'Was that funny?'

I think it's important for me, for my crew and for the audience to bring something new to each show. I have friends who have done the same act, word for word for word, for 20 years. I have a problem with that. I think the audience should see something new in each show.

So I try not to look too far into the future because I think that everything happens and will happen for a reason.

My real name is Scott Thompson. I could have gone by that name, but when I started doing comedy I thought I needed to go by something that has a little more of a hook.

When I told my friends I was going to be a comedian, they laughed at me.

Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.

People always want to put a label on you; they always want to compare you to something.

Everyone has the gift of laughter inside of them. All the world is a prop.

My manager has a car payment, so I work every night.

I don't want to be known just as 'Carrot Top.' I don't always want to be this crazy, goofy guy.

Almost every day, someone asks if I ever flat iron my hair. I say, 'No, because I'm afraid it wouldn't look good and wouldn't come back curly.'

My way of fitting in was through jokes and making people laugh.

Video games are so popular these days, getting the opportunity to star in one is something special. More people should do it.

People always say to me, 'You're really attractive - in an unusual way.' No one ever just says, 'You're attractive.'

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

I've experienced plenty of times when something I think is funny doesn't do very well. And there are times when something I don't think is funny makes the audience laugh so hard.

The street in the center of town was Butts road. I stole the sign and told the audience, this must be where the assholes live. I also had a Neighborhood Crime Watch - it takes about 20 seconds to break into a house but it took me an hour to unbolt this sign.

People always say to me, Youre really attractive - in an unusual way. No one ever just says, Youre attractive.

Comics don't like to see other comics do well.

Some people don't realize that I've had a career pre-commercials.

My way of making people like me was to make 'em laugh.

Some people even think I wear a wig. Do they think I went into a salon one day and said, Can you please screw this up really bad?

The blessing is that everyone knows who I am because of the commercials.

When I was younger I always thought, 'If I were ever a comedian I'd make it like a rock concert.' I wanted to generate that type of enthusiasm and excitement.

I always think everyone else is funnier than me. I look at other comedians and I say, 'I wish I was that good.' People think I'm funny, and I say, 'I'm not.'

I didn't really have a plan of attack when I got in college.

I think it's the fact that I do something different and that I actually have some success with it. That bothers a lot of people... especially comics.