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

Mike Myers Quotes

Canadian - Comedian Born: May 25, 1963

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

Happen, Tells, Anyone

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, Father's Day, Think

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

Dumb, Jokes, Like

My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. Mike Myers

Funny, Cuisine, Based

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

Canada, Subtle, Celery

For me, everything definitely comes from music. Mike Myers

Music, Me, Definitely

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago. Mike Myers

Career, Given, Had

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens. Mike Myers

Think, Happen, Actually

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

Political, Other, Very

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sickens me. He is, like, 12 years old or something! He has 0 percent body fat, he is musically gifted, he has a great ear for accents, and he is hilarious. Mike Myers

My Life, Body, Hilarious

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death. Mike Myers

Marriage, Death, Waiting

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. Mike Myers

Love, Some, Suburbs

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

Young, Young People, Appear

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms. Mike Myers

Some, Began, Turned

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

Idea, Having, Before

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. Mike Myers

Love, Yes, Movie

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

Kid, Sandwiches, Starving

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. Mike Myers

Come, Dad, Often

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

Happy, Toronto, Very

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

Proud, Give, Very

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America. Mike Myers

Weird, Never, Would

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

Parent, Needed, First One

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. Mike Myers

Like, Which, James

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone. Mike Myers

Intimacy, Intensity, Very

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

Lovely, Going, Knew

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

Love, Potatoes, Very

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