Quotes By Mike Myers

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

I 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.

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.

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.

I 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.

The 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.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

And 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.

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.

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.

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

Europe 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.

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

So 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.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Dr. 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.

Verne'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.

Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.

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.

Shooting 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.

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

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.