Latest Mike Myers Quotes from Interviews

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• I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then there are times when unfair, unkind, untrue things are written about you. That bothers me less now.

  Mike Myers

  Laid Back, Different, Toronto

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

  Mike Myers

  Easy, Persons

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• 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.

  Mike Myers

  Self Esteem, Struggle, Acceptance

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.

  Mike Myers

  Rooms, England, Meat

  Source: www.movieweb.com

• I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

  Mike Myers

  New York, Cities, I Love New York

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mike Myers

  Growing Up, People, Training

  Source: collider.com

• I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

  Mike Myers

  Love Is, Stuff I Like, Going Away

  Source: collider.com

• It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

  Mike Myers

  Thinking, Canada, Would Be

  Source: collider.com

• 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.

  Mike Myers

  Crazy, Grateful, Kids

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

• I've wanted to be an actor since I was eight years old and I did TV commercials when I was a kid. When I was eleven Saturday Night Live came on and I thought, "Oh God, I'd love to do that." I saw the Pink Panther movies and thought, "God, I'd love to have a comedy series; I'd love to have a character I'd created that becomes a series." I've now pretty-much done everything I've wanted to do since I was eight years old and it's a wonderful feeling, I've got to say.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Kids, Night

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

• I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

  Mike Myers

  Character, Thinking, Ideas

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

• I've been involved with Shrek for eleven years, so you'd better like Shrek if you're going to be involved with it for eleven years. I do, I like it a great deal, so I enjoy it.

  Mike Myers

  Years, Eleven, Enjoy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com

• Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

  Mike Myers

  Two, Sausage, Comedy

  Source: editorial.rottentomatoes.com