Quotes from 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.

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

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.

My parents would read those books to me as well but they used to make me starving when I was a kid because they were always eating ham sandwiches with the crusts off and drinking ginger beer.

My father and mother emigrated to Canada in 1958, but there's nobody more English than an Englishman who no longer lives in England, and our home was a shrine to all things English.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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

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

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.

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

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

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.

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