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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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" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "

" 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. "

" 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! "

" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "

" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "

" My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love. "

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

" 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. "

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

" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. "

" Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. "

" 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. "