Bruce McCulloch Quotations

No, they're nice guys. They wear girdles, but they're nice guys." ()

I hate to sound like Julie the cruise director but it's people that I think about all the time.

I don't love comedy but I can watch someone who's kind of interesting forever. I think a waitress who's having a bad day is a lot more fun than Robin Williams doing forty minutes of material.

Cancer Boy probably has the saddest, noblest, sweetest heart of any character I've ever done.

But after this last year and dealing with the studio, the rest of us are closer than we've ever been.

Is it spoken word? Kinda, but that's a weird area. Is it comedy? Well, it's funny but no, it's not comedy.

I got involved in improv comedy. It settled me down when I was getting wild. I was sort of an evil teenager smashing up my cars and drinking and driving, let's just say, a lot.

I think you can see that in the show. Music was my touchstone. Music is still much more important to me.

I think you're the grumpy Kid in the Hall, I'm the nice Kid in the Hall.

Yeah, we're sweet but savage, and I think a lot of Canadians are that way.

We see less of Dave, certainly, and he's kind of fallen out of the sphere of our group, mostly because he's working on his show, and has kind of lost the fun of the party." ()

However, we couldn't focus on the films much during the series because we're dumb. Individually we're smart guys, but together we're one big dumb guy, and couldn't concentrate on two things at once.

I would rather be a security guard than a rock star.

I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

No, I don't run all the way. I'm not like an Olympic class runner.

I, sir, I just like to work. I'm humble.

You know, funny is this weird word for me. I hear is so many times it has no meaning anymore.

In terms of the series, we worked separately, getting together in rehearsal to beat out the material." ()

Most of the people I know in bands, all they are concerned about is getting to do the next record.

But we wanted to work in a way we never had, which was write everything together. We had to face each other in the same creative room, which gets tougher as you get older, because you don't want to be confrontational.

I like to do little obsessed losers, or people who are in over their head, or people who are trying to figure stuff out, or guys whose girlfriends leave them and they don't quite get it. Guys who just don't quite get it.

I think that's why I like baseball. There's something great about it - you're young, the pitcher's young and he's got this great arm, and he doesn't really realize anything about strategy.

I'm just ah, actually developing a tv show for HBO, and I'm directing a film this summer, and actually I'm doing some live shows out in western Canada." ()

To me, Doors fans were always the 16-year-old idiots at parties, getting stoned, and talking about how Morrison's lyrics were like poetry... like that was a deep thought.

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

I'm in a rut deep enough to hang posters.

I think after the series was over, ah it took a while to realize that I really did want to perform a little bit more than I always said I did." ()

L.A. Woman is amazing, but when I was growing up I was into the Who.

It would send a very strong signal to us that, basically, you're not interested." ()

I don't know, I just sort of follow my own momentum, whatever that is. I'm not, like, on the rewrite circuit, or on the stand-up circuit." ()