When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program. – Mike Myers
I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I’m very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it. – Mike Myers
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He’d often come out with this stuff. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. – Mike Myers
I do miss Saturday Night Live, that’s for sure. There’s nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I’d only been away for a week. – Mike Myers
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. – Mike Myers
I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. – Mike Myers
Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. – Mike Myers
The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
If I went by all the rejection I’ve had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. – Mike Myers
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. – Mike Myers
On my death bed, I’m not going to say, ‘God I wish I did more movies.’ I’m perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did. – Mike Myers
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! – Mike Myers
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
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. – Mike Myers
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. – Mike Myers
