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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. "
Mike Myers
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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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" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
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" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "
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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. "
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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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" 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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" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "
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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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Long
" 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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You
" 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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Go
Love
People
" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
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Always
He
" 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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Parent
Got
First
" 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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Parents
Always
Beer
" 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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Think
Actor
Guest
" 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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Saying
Growing
Love
" 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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Time
Play
Party
" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
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Dumb
Done
Jokes
" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
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Fatherhood
Greatest
" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "
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Life
Think
You
" 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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Knew
Done
Canadian
" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "
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Some
Accept
Got
" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
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Music
Me
Everything
" 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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Time
People
" 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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Canada
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" Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. "
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Waiting
Death
Marriage
" 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. "
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Him
" 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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Pressure
You
Beautiful
" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "
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High
Film
Arts
" Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. "
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Never
Weird
Songs
" 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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Body
Life