Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Mike MyersVery good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.
Mike MyersEverywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!
Mike MyersIf I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
Mike MyersI think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
Mike MyersI 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.
Mike MyersI'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.
Mike MyersPeople 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 MyersI 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 MyersI 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 MyersCanada 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.
Mike MyersIt'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?"
Mike MyersI can be described as many things, but no description of me is complete without saying 'Englishman.' My parents were from Liverpool and emigrated to Canada before I was born.
Mike MyersDad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
Mike MyersAnd 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.
Mike MyersWith fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Mike MyersI had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
Mike MyersMy Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
Mike MyersI feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.
Mike MyersI'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.
Mike MyersOnce I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.
Mike MyersAustin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
Mike MyersI think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.
Mike MyersAnyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Mike MyersMost comedians want to be the architect of their own embarrassment. They have horrible self-esteem issues. I would rather push myself into the mud. I don't want to be pushed into the mud. I think that is probably true. I think most people struggle with self-acceptance. But comedians get a chance to self externalize.
Mike MyersI had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
Mike MyersI 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.
Mike MyersThe interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
Mike MyersCanada 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.
Mike MyersDr. 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.
Mike MyersI 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.
Mike MyersI 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 MyersJustin 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.
Mike MyersAnd 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.
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