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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
Canada
City
Indigenous
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" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
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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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" My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. "
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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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" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
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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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" Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. "
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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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America
You
" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "
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" 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. "
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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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People
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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. "
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" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "
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" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "
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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! "
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Water
" 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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" 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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Think
Amazing
Experience
" 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. "
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Long
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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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Good
Father
Myself
" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
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Dare
Cuisine
Funny
" 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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Memories
Happy
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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. "
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" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
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Dumb
Done
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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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" 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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Intensity
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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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People
" 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. "
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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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" Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. "
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Discipline
Air Force
" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "
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Me
People