Quotes by Mike Myers

About Mike Myers:

Michael John "Mike" Myers is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film producer. He is known for his run as a featured performer on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, and for playing the title roles in the Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek films. He also directed the documentary film Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, and had a small role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in 2009.
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With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

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

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

Mike Myers

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

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

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

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

Author Bio

  • NameMike Myers
  • DescriptionCanadian- British- American actor, comedian, singer, screenwriter, and film producer
  • AliasesMichael John Myers
  • BornMay 25, 1963
  • CountryCanada; United States Of America; United Kingdom
  • ProfessionScreenwriter; Film Producer; Television Actor; Film Actor; Actor; Voice Actor
  • AwardsPrimetime Emmy Award