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" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "
Mike Myers
Police
Come
Me
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" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
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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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" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "
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" My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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. "
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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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" 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. "
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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
Long
" 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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" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
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Me
Everything
" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "
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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 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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Library
" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
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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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
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" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "
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" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "
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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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" With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. "
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" 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. "
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