Mike Myers Quotes

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Mike Myers

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 25, 1963

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

Mike Myers

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

Mike Myers

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

Mike Myers

Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.

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

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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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Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.

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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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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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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

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

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

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On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

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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.

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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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