Zitat des Tages von Mike Myers:
My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
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!
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.
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.
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
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.
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.
I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
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.
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.
Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.
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.
I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
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.
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
For me, everything definitely comes from music.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
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 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 was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.
I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
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.
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.
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.
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 really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.
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.
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.
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.
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
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.
My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
