Quotes by Mike Myers - Page 2

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
Mike Myers / Actor
Guinness
House
Monty
Peter
Python
Sellers
Ties
Alec
Bond
Highly
James
James Bond
Monty Python
Regarded
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I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.
Mike Myers / Actor
Going Away
Love Is
Stuff I Like
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Nothing To Lose
Risk
Thinking
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My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.
Mike Myers / Actor
Men
Father
Humour
People
No Sense
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Character
Machines
Miracle
People
Love Time Me
Answering
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Dad
Brooks
Hours
Kind
Minutes
Ten
Two
Awesome
Mel Brooks
Ten Minutes
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I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
Mike Myers / Actor
Battle
Play
Ukulele
Great Me Sometimes
Battles
Drums
Group
Mostly
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There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.
Mike Myers / Actor
Joy
Secret
Testing
Night People Know
Audiences
Molecule
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Driving
Drs
Evil
Looks
Family Me Look
Dr
Family Look Me
Mouth
Sign
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Versus
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Canada
Celery
Essence
Subtle
Transcendentalism
Like
More
Being
American
English
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I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?
Mike Myers / Actor
Feet
Real
White
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Adventure
Evil
Parent
Single Parent
Adventures
Dr
Dynamic
Explored
First One
Scott
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Pressure
Succumb
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Spiritual
Terribly
Neither
Passed
Quest
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Book
Eight
Smelly
Stinky
Thinking
Turning
Ended
Ogre
Page
Thinks
Twenty
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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!
Mike Myers / Actor
Actors
Ham
Views
Water
Cooked
Wanting
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I can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
Mike Myers / Actor
Born
Canada
Description
Liverpool
Parent
Me Parents Born
Englishman
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I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.
Mike Myers / Actor
Eleven
Enjoy
Years
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Bollywood
Boxes
Long
Toronto
Tv
Cable
Wired
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Canada
Cities
Country
Cuisine
Indigenous
Ingredients
Musician
Toronto
Named
Dish
Instrument
Musicians
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
All Things
Canada
England
Home Mother Father
Nobody
Home Father Mother
Longer
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Beer
Drinking
Eating
Ginger
Ham
Sandwiches
Starving
Always Me Parents
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Anger
People
Scottish
Thinking
Love Great People
Canadians
Dynamic
Quickly
Relatives
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I write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.
Mike Myers / Actor
Audience
Average
Months
Sixty
Creates
Front
Molecule
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Father's Day
Deny
Father
Thinking
Want
Love Good Experience
Love Experience Good
Gratifying
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Chocolate
Entertainment
Europe
Fun
Ideas
Funny People Fun
Bar
Bench
Funny Fun People
Ours
Sharing
Young People
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Amazing
Classic
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Fun
Real
Silly
Amazing Experience
Shrek
Tale
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Correctness
Europe
Political Correctness
Tends
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Shooting
Month
Time Music Great
Great Time
Hang
Literally
Play Music
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Bliss
Each Day
Eight
Meat
Potatoes
Love Work Movies
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Character
Different Characters
Fairy
Library
Memories
Mother
Tales
Toronto
Check
Fairy Tales
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I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.
Mike Myers / Actor
Different
Laid Back
Toronto
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Actors
Comedic
Hero
Peter
Sellers
Thinking
Heroes
Alec
Christopher
Dan
Guest
Mix
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Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.
Mike Myers / Actor
Growing Up
People
Training
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Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious.
Mike Myers / Actor
Hilarious
Accents
Body
Body Fat
Gifted
Justin
Years
Life Great Me
Fat
Talented
Ear
Justin Timberlake
Musically
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Movie
Character
Enjoy
Ideas
Joy
People
Secret
Study
Testing
Love Character Day
Audiences
Figuring
Front
Molecule
Videotape
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Beautiful
Ideas
People
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I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.
Mike Myers / Actor
Character
Ideas
Thinking
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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.
Mike Myers / Actor
Austin
Father
Growing Up
Heavy
Heavy Metal
Listening
Toronto
Wayne
Austin Powers
Love Culture World
Forced
Metal
Passed
Powers
To Love
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At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.
Mike Myers / Actor
England
Meat
Rooms
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Most comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.
Mike Myers / Actor
Acceptance
Self Esteem
Struggle
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I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.
Mike Myers / Actor
Kids
Crazy
Grateful
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I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.
Mike Myers / Actor
Kids
Character
Night
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