Mike Myers Quotes & Sayings

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

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah ... I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England. — Mike Myers

Very 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 Myers

I 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 Myers

Enlightenment is lightening up. — Mike Myers

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

I'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 Myers

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. — Mike Myers

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

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

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

This crazy thing called love ... — Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did. — Mike Myers

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

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

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters. — Mike Myers

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. — Mike Myers

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

When you're writing these things, you're in a room making each other laugh, you really have very little sense of political correctness or incorrectness. This is a question that Europe tends to ask and America doesn't. — Mike Myers

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

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

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. — 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. — Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite. — Mike Myers

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. — Mike Myers

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

I'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 Myers

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

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

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

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success. — Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

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

It'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 Myers

The message of the movie is to accept who you are and not to succumb to the pressure of what the media tells you is beautiful and what you should be looking like. — Mike Myers

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

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? — Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

Most 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 Myers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Mike Myers

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

My parents taught me to do whatever makes you happy - follow your bliss. That's why I don't make a lot of movies. I'm very meat and potatoes when it comes to work, putting in eight hours each day. I only do what I love. — Mike Myers

I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say. — Mike Myers

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

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

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before. — Mike Myers

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely. — Mike Myers

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

I 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 Myers

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. — Mike Myers

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

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

to think something is good, to do something is God. — Mike Myers

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself. — Mike Myers

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

In 1991, my father passed away and I went on a spiritual quest. It was a light one, not too terribly deep because I'm not terribly deep, and neither was my father. — Mike Myers