24 Mike Myers Quotes

Mike Myers quotes

1. Touch my monkey (from Sprockets)

2. Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me

3. Austin Powers in Goldmember

4. Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

5. Saturday Night Live

6. So I Married an Axe Murderer

7. Wayne's World

8. Wayne's World 2

1. I'm bigger than you! I'm higher on the food chain - get in my belly!

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. Here's the plan: we get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for… one million dollars!

9. 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.

10. 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.

11. 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.

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

13. I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.

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

15. 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.

16. I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.