Mike Myers Quotes

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Mike Myers

Profession : Comedian

Birth : May 25, 1963

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

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In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father.

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My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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For me, everything definitely comes from music.

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

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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.

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