Top 35 Mike Myers Quotes

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

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 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.