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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. "
Awesome
Movies
Loved
" 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. "
Think
Amazing
Experience
" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
Who
Fatherhood
Greatest
" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "
Little
Austin
Bond
" 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. "
Canada
City
Indigenous
" 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. "
American
Canada
Like
" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "
Movies
Just
House
" Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. "
Parents
Discipline
Air Force
" 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. "
Parent
Got
First
" 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. "
People
Fun
Chocolate
" Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. "
Never
Weird
Songs
" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "
Young
Me
People
" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
Music
Me
Everything
" 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! "
Actor
Way
Water
" 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. "
Week
Night
Live
" If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. "
Long Time
Career
Long
" 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. "
Long
Remember
I Can
" I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. "
Perfect
Wonder
Strange
" I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it. "
Knew
Done
Canadian
" 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. "
Memories
Happy
Library
" I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely. "
Beautiful
Awesome
Know
" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
Dumb
Done
Jokes
" I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. "
Family
Guy
Loved
" 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. "
Love
Never
Loving
" 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. "
Love
People
Joy
" 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. "
Think
Actor
Guest
" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "
Police
Come
Me
" 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. "
Go
Love
People
" I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. "
Proud
Grandchildren
Will
" 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. "
Good
Father
Myself
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