Carrot Top Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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'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.

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.'

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

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

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 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.

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?

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

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

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