Quotes from 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 write everything I do. On the average, it takes you about sixty months from the first molecule of an idea to it being in front of an audience. I'm actually somebody that creates their own stuff.

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 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.

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

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.

This crazy thing called love...

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

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

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

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

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

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.