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Mike Myers
Canadian
Comedian
Born:
May 25
,
1963
Great
Love
Me
People
Think
You
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Anyone who tells you fatherhood is the greatest thing that can happen to you, they are understating it.
Mike Myers
You
Fatherhood
Tells
Greatest
Greatest Thing
Anyone
Happen
Who
Thing
I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
Mike Myers
Jokes
Smart
Like
Dumb
Done
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
Mike Myers
Time
Long
Long Time
Rejection
Given
Had
Long Time Ago
Up
Should
Career
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
Me
Library
Memories
Happy
Mother
Out
Characters
Toronto
Take
Check
Tales
She
Fairy
Fairy Tales
Very
Different
Different Characters
Act
Used
Actress
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
Family
Evil
First
Single
Parent
Between
Adventures
First One
Got
Single Parent
Scott
Being
Dynamic
Explored
Dr
Needed
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
Experience
Amazing
Thought
Think
Kids
Would
Classic
Silly
Take
Tale
Well
Sort
Fairy
Fairy Tale
Real
Amazing Experience
Want
Them
Fun
Shrek
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
Love
Myself
Good
Great
Me
Experience
Father
Think
Father's Day
Everybody
Definitely
Would
Had
How
Deny
Going
Taught
Wants
Who
Gratifying
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
Mike Myers
You
People
Language
Spoke
Like
Know
Talk
Well
How
Linda
Yiddish
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
Beautiful
You
Pressure
Looking
Tells
Like
Message
Accept
Movie
Should
Succumb
Who
Media
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
Me
Beer
Parents
Drinking
Starving
Books
Kid
Those
Would
Ginger
Eating
Well
Make
Read
Because
Always
Ham
Were
Off
Sandwiches
Used
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
Mike Myers
Army
Out
He
Picked
Stuff
Come
Up
Often
Dad
Liverpool
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
Give
More
Could
Had
Knew
Proud
Very
Canadian
Done
Shrek
For me, everything definitely comes from music.
Mike Myers
Music
Me
Everything
Definitely
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Mike Myers
Me
People
Young
Trying
Middle-Aged
Young People
Europe
Appear
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
Comedy
Monty
Monty Python
Those
Guinness
Highly
Python
House
Were
Huge
Sellers
Just
James
James Bond
Regarded
Movies
Peter
Peter Sellers
Bond
Alec
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
Mike Myers
Car
Drive
Type
Bit
Would
Martin
Like
Sounds
Austin
James
James Bond
Which
Little
Little Bit
Bond
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
Love
Day
Character
People
Joy
First
Before
Enjoy
Secret
Those
Out
About
Having
Only
Study
Idea
Stuff
Know
Making
Audiences
Testing
Front
Being
Movie
Them
Then
Videotape
Molecule
Figuring
Shows
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
World
Water
Made
First
Way
Out
Percent
Ham
Came
Just
Wanted
Wanting
View
Cooked
Actor
With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
Mike Myers
Alone
You
Intimacy
Between
Also
Fame
Very
Intensity
Much
My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
Mike Myers
Mom
Sold
Factory
Office
Worked
Dad
The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
Mike Myers
Life
You
Think
About
Going
Happen
Happens
Interesting
Interesting Thing
Actually
Thing
When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
Mike Myers
School
High
Fine
Fine Arts
High School
Accepted
Got
York
Graduated
Arts
Film
Program
University
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
Beautiful
Father
Awesome
Kid
Out
Would
Knew
Come
Know
Going
Wanted
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.
Mike Myers
Saying
Me
Parents
Before
Complete
Born
Without
Were
Canada
Many
Description
Englishman
Liverpool
Things
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
Mike Myers
Comedy
Favourite
Ultimate
Up
Sellers
Grew
Loved
Movies
Peter
Dad
Peter Sellers
British
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
Work
Love
Day
Me
You
Happy
Parents
Whatever
Follow
Potatoes
Only
Putting
Hours
Make
Makes
Bliss
Lot
Very
Taught
Eight
Movies
Your
Meat
Each
Each Day
Why
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