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

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'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?

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

Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.

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

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