Mike Myers famous quotes

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

#Fathers Day #Falling In Love #Kids

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

#Mother #Memories #Character

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Growing Up #Father #Listening

I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
-- Mike Myers

#Smart #Dumb #Done

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

#Silly #Humor #Serious

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

#Believe #Police #Talent

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

#Funny #Witty #Humorous

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

#Europe #People #Trying

For me, everything definitely comes from music.
-- Mike Myers

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.
-- Mike Myers

#Coffee #Guy #Needs

My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
-- Mike Myers

#Father #Silly #Inspiration

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

#Ties #Python #House

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

#Reality #Guy #Want

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

#Anger #Thinking #People

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

#Character #Perfect #Guy

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

#Song #America #Europe

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

#Mom #Dad #Army

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
-- Mike Myers

#Dad #Comedy #Favourite

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
-- Mike Myers

#Marriage #Waiting #Rooms

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Believe #Comedy #Love Making

The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
-- Mike Myers

#Nuts #Peanuts #Peas

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

#Empires #Holy #Roman Empire

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

#Chains #Bigger #Higher

Here's the plan: we get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for… one million dollars!
-- Mike Myers

#World #Ransom #Dollars

Enlightenment is lightening up.
-- Mike Myers

#Grace #Enlightenment

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

#Dad #Fatherhood

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

#Evil #Looks #Mouths

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

#Fun #Europe #Ideas

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

#Years #Bored #Mono

And 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.
-- Mike Myers

#Fun #Real #Silly

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Thinking #Risk #Nothing To Lose

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
-- Mike Myers

#Beautiful #Ideas #People

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

#People #Come Up #Ask Me

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

#Careers #Long #Rejection

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Book #Thinking #Eight

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

#Nice #Discovering Yourself

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Essence #Canada #Transcendentalism

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?
-- Mike Myers

#Idiot

I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.
-- Mike Myers

#Years #Pieces #Frozen

This crazy thing called love...
-- Mike Myers

#Crazy

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

#Character #Ideas #People

Justin 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 Myers

#Years #Body #Accents

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

#Bonus #Accepting #Term

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Father #Men #Laughing

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
-- Mike Myers

#Dad #Army #Stuff

My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
-- Mike Myers

#Mom #Dad #Office

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

#Dad #Silly #Laughing

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

#Kids #Thinking #Grandchildren

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Ukulele #Play #Battle

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

#Giving #Proud #Done

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

#Night #Missing #Week

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

#Ties #Car #Aston Martin

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

#Character #People #Miracle

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

#Thinking #Interesting #Life Is

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Hero #Thinking #Actors

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Father #Thinking #Want

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

#Long #Toronto #Tvs

I 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 Myers

#Parent #Canada #Description

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

#Views #Water #Actors

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Adventure #Evil #Parent

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Country #Cities #Toronto

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

#Fame #Intimacy #Intensity

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
-- Mike Myers

#Art #School #Film

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

#People #Language #Spokes

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.
-- Mike Myers

#Dad #Two #Kind