Mike Myers Quotes
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I 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.
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Oh, 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.
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Canada 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.
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I 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.
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Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
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Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.
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I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used to take me to the library in Toronto to check out the fairy tales. And she was an actress, so she used to act out for me the different characters in all these fairy tales.
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I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.
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I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
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I 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.
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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
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Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
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Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
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I'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.
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Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
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This crazy thing called love...
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I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.
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Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!
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My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
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I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
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Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
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When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
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Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
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The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
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And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
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It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"
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You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.
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My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
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My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
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