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

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Mike Myers
Age: 61
Born: 1963
Born: May 25
Actor
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Michael John Myers
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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.
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Enlightenment is lightening up.
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When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.
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Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
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I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
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With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.
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Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument Toronto's a city that doesn't even have a dish named after it.
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Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
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Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
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Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
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Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.
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And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.
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I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
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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.
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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.
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It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.
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