Mike Myers
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
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.
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.
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
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.
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 was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.
I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.Collection: Silly
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.Collection: Fathers Day
While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.Collection: Nice
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.Collection: Thinking
Enlightenment is lightening up.Collection: Grace
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?Collection: Real
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?"Collection: Thinking
Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.Collection: Two
Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!Collection: Dollars
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.Collection: Crazy
I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.Collection: Years
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.Collection: Empires
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.Collection: Growing Up
Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.Collection: Coffee
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.Collection: Nuts
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.Collection: Laid Back
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.Collection: Self Esteem
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.Collection: Beautiful
Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Rooms
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.Collection: Character
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.Collection: Years
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.Collection: Love Is
Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!Collection: People
This crazy thing called love...Collection: Crazy
I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.Collection: Years
It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.Collection: Easy
I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.Collection: New York
I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!Collection: Bigger
Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?Collection: Evil Characters