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" My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. "

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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. "

" I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. "

" 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. "

" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "

" Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "

" My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office. "

" 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. "

" My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "

" 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. "

" Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline. "

" 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. "

" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "

" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "

" I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too. "

" 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. "