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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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" 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

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Movies

Loved

" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "

Mike Myers

Guy

Always

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

" 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. "

" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "

Mike Myers

Police

Come

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "

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

" With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

Mike Myers

People

Language

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

Mike Myers

Some

Got

" 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 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. "