Quotes By Mike Myers

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.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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!

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.

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.

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.

My 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.