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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. "
Mike Myers
Knew
Done
Canadian
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
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" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "
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" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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" I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. "
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" 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. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" 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. "
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Love
" 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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" If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. "
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Career
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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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Wonder
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" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
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Music
Me
Everything
" 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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" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
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" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
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" 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. "
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" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "
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" Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. "
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" 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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" 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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" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
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