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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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" 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

Day

Happy

Work

" My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

Mike Myers

Some

Got

" 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. "

" Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. "

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

Mike Myers

American

Canada

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

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

" 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

Family

Evil

" 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. "

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

" 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 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

Love

People

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

Mike Myers

Police

Come

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

Mike Myers

Guy

Always

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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