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

Mike Myers Quotes

Canadian - Comedian Born: May 25, 1963

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

Greatest, You, Fatherhood

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, Rejection, Long

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

Funny, Theory, Dare

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, Experience

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

Marriage, Death, Waiting

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, Done, Give

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

Movies, Comedy, Bond

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

Smart, Dumb, Done

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

Parents, Me, Canada

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

American, Canada, Subtle

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

America, Writing, Political

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

Language, People, Know

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, Work, You

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, Media, Pressure

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. Mike Myers

Shooting this one was kind of like a two month party, we would literally play music between takes, and other movies that were shooting on our lot would play hookey, come over and hang out and stuff. We had a great time. Mike Myers

Music, Time, Great

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. Mike Myers

Love, Time, People

Oh, you know, driving around, coming to a stop sign and an entire family, from 8 to 80, will be looking at me with that Dr. Evil look - pinkie on the mouth. Mike Myers

Family, Evil, Me

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

Parents, Beer, Me

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

Army, Up, Liverpool

My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly. Mike Myers

Funny, Laugh, Silly

I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. Mike Myers

Proud, Think, Grandchildren

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. Mike Myers

Love, Friends, Great

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

Family, World, Reality

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, Memories, Mother

I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character. Mike Myers

Character, Me, Strange

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