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" Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. "
Mike Myers
Waiting
Death
Marriage
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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. "
Mike Myers
Pressure
You
Beautiful
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Love
People
Joy
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Man
Laugh
Him
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Week
Night
Live
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Think
Amazing
Experience
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Time
Play
Party
" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
Mike Myers
Music
Me
Everything
" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "
Mike Myers
Some
Accept
Got
" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "
Mike Myers
People
Like
Language
" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "
Mike Myers
Life
Think
You
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Parent
Got
First
" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
Mike Myers
Who
Fatherhood
Greatest
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Canada
City
Indigenous
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Good
Father
Myself
" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
Mike Myers
Dare
Cuisine
Funny
" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
Mike Myers
Dumb
Done
Jokes
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Parents
Always
Beer
" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "
Mike Myers
Police
Come
Me
" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "
Mike Myers
High
Film
Arts
" I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. "
Mike Myers
Perfect
Wonder
Strange
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Great
Body
Life
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Writing
America
You
" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "
Mike Myers
Young
Me
People
" With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. "
Mike Myers
Alone
Intensity
Intimacy
" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "
Mike Myers
Movies
Just
House
" 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
Me
Family
Evil
" I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. "
Mike Myers
Proud
Grandchildren
Will
" Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. "
Mike Myers
Never
Weird
Songs
" I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. "
Mike Myers
Family
Guy
Loved
" Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. "
Mike Myers
Parents
Discipline
Air Force