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" 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. "

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" 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

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House

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "

Mike Myers

Music

Everything

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

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

" 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 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. "

" If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. "

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

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

Mike Myers

Guy

Always

" 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. "

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

Mike Myers

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "