Quotes By Mike Myers

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.

I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

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.

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.

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

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

I 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.

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.

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.

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 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.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

People 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.

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