Bruce McCulloch Quotes

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

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• 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.

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  Tags in Comedy

• I got through college realizing business was repugnant.

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  Topics in Business, College

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

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• 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.

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  Topics in Work

• 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.

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• I don’t really like comedy.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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  Tags in People, Obsessed

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

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

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• 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.

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

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  Tags in Hate

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

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• I, sir, I just like to work. I’m humble.

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

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• 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.

  Bruce McCulloch

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

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  Tags in Woman, Growing

• No, they’re nice guys. They wear girdles, but they’re nice guys.

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  Tags in Nice, Wear

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

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  Tags in Way, Run

Bruce McCulloch (26)

Birth:	12th May, 1961
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Film Director, Screenwriter

About

Bruce McCulloch was born in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is a Canadian actor, writer, comedian, and film director. McCulloch is best known for his work as a member of The Kids in the Hall, a popular Canadian comedy troupe, and as a writer for Saturday Night Live. McCulloch has also appeared on series such as Twitch City and Gilmore Girls. He directed the films Dog Park, Stealing Harvard and Superstar. He was the writer of ABC's Carpoolers.  McCulloch is a graduate of Mount Royal College located in Calgary, Alberta. He co-wrote, starred in, and was executive producer of the Kids in the Hall 2010 reunion project Death Comes to Town.

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