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" My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. "
Mike Myers
Worked
Sold
Dad
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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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Night
Live
" 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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" 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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" 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
Strange
" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "
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Come
Me
" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "
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Think
You
" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "
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Austin
Bond
" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "
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Like
Language
" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
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Fatherhood
Greatest
" 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
" 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 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. "
Mike Myers
Memories
Happy
Library
" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
Mike Myers
Dumb
Done
Jokes
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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Love
Never
Loving
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Want
Time
People
" 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
" 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. "
Mike Myers
Beautiful
Awesome
Know
" My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. "
Mike Myers
Very
Loved
Funny
" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
Mike Myers
Dare
Cuisine
Funny
" 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
" 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. "
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Think
Amazing
Experience
" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
Mike Myers
Guy
Always
He
" 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
" 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 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
" 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