Mike Myers Quotes (37 Quotes)


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

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

    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.

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

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


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

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

    You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

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

    We're expecting a lot better sales due to the large freshman class. Also, we are looking forward to the football season when things cool down and we get into 'pizza weather,'

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

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

    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 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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    For me, everything definitely comes from music.

    We've not prepared well this week and it's cause to pause. I'm afraid my guys don't understand the pain and frustration that comes with being embarrassed by your rival.

    Tonight I had to cover Leach and I take that as a challenge. Our defense played well tonight. The guys are quick and make great touches.

    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.

    You don't win unless you have the seventh and eighth inning covered with someone outside of your closer. It's nice to see middle relievers get their due.

    And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.

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

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

    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.

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

    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.

    Cameron is incredibly charming. I've seen Charlie's Angels four times.

    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.

    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.

    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.

    Welcome Terry to the world of home ownership. Welcome to the world of mortgage payments and real estate taxes.

    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.


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