Mike Myers's Quotes
Born: 1963-05-25
Profession: Comedian
Nation: Canadian
Biography of Mike Myers
When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't.
Tags: Laugh, Political, WritingAnd I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
Tags: Amazing, Experience, FunCanada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.
Tags: American, English, EssenceDr. Evil got shortchanged in the first one. The family dynamic between Scott and Dr. Evil - the adventures of being an evil single parent - needed to be explored.
Tags: Evil, Family, SingleEurope is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
Tags: Fun, Funny, WhyI came out wanting to be an actor. From my first view of the world, that's what I wanted to be. I'm made of 99 percent ham and 1 percent water. I was just cooked that way!
Tags: Actor, Wanted, WaterI grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that were wired to the TV, there have been Bollywood movies on Toronto TV.
Tags: Movies, Old, RememberI love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.
Tags: Character, Enjoy, LoveI would love to be a father. I had a great father who taught me how gratifying that is. I'm not going to deny myself that. I think I'd be good at it. Everybody wants that experience. I definitely do.
Tags: Good, Great, LoveI'm a comedic actor, not to mix words, but it's something I think about. A comedic actor. I like to think that Christopher Guest, Phil Hartman, Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness are comedic actors. And Dan Aykroyd, too. Those are my heroes.
Tags: Actor, Heroes, WordsMy parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.
Tags: Beer, Off, ParentsOh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth.
Tags: Evil, Family, LookingShooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time.
Tags: Great, Music, TimeSo they ended up turning this little twenty eight page book into the movie. And it's all about this stinky, smelly ogre who doesn't care what anybody thinks of him.
Tags: Book, Care, HimThe message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like.
Tags: Accept, Beautiful, LookingVerne's all about what you can do versus what you can't do. He just kept saying yes and his part kept growing. I would love to work with him in every movie.
Tags: Love, Saying, WorkI think that Scottish people, like Canadians, are often misunderstood and what I like about my Scottish friends and relatives is how quickly it can go from love to anger. It's a great dynamic.
Tags: Anger, Great, LoveFor me, everything definitely comes from music.
Tags: Definitely, MusicMy father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
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And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
Tags: Dad, Love, MoviesI do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.
Tags: Away, Night, SureI had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
Tags: Done, Give, ProudAustin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
Tags: Bit, Car, DriveComedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Tags: Comedy, House, MoviesEurope to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Tags: Europe, Trying, YoungI had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
Tags: Character, Perfect, WhyI love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.
Tags: Comedy, Love, MakingI loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
Tags: Family, Loved, RealityI still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
Tags: Arrest, Police, TimeI think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
Tags: Kids, Movie, ProudMy Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
Tags: Dad, Often, StuffPeople ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.
Tags: Ask, Love, TimeWell, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
Tags: Language, Spoke, Talk