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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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" 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. "

" 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! "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. "

" 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. "

" I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. "

" 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. "

" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "

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

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

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

" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "

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

" 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. "

" Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. "

" 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. "