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" 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
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" I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. "
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" When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. "
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" 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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" For me, everything definitely comes from music. "
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" Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. "
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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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Got
First
" I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly. "
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Done
Jokes
" 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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Play
Party
" Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded. "
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Just
House
" 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. "
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Canada
Like
" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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Family
Evil
" 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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Stuff
Army
Come
" 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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" My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. "
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" My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. "
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" 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. "
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" My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration. "
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" 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. "
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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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You
" I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me. "
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Police
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Me
" 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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Guest