Mike Myers Quotes

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

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

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

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

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

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

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

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

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

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

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.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?

While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.

I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.

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

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.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

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

Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

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

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

I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

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

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

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.

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.

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.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

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

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

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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

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

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.

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.

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 love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

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.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

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

I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!

I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.

I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

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