Mike Myers
Mike Myers
Michael John "Mike" Myersis a Canada-born actor, comedian, screenwriter, director, and film producer, who also holds UK and US citizenship. He is known for his run as a featured performer on Saturday Night Live from 1989 to 1995, and for playing the title roles in the Wayne's World, Austin Powers, and Shrek films. He also directed the documentary film Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, and had a small role in Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds in 2009...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth25 May 1963
CityToronto, Canada
CountryCanada
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.
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.
Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.
I love making comedy. I never stopped loving it. I will continue to love it and I can't believe that I get to do it.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
My dad sold encyclopedias and my mom worked in a factory office.
I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
I play the ukulele. I have a great group of friends, and we do things like have battles of the bands - me sometimes on ukulele, but mostly on drums.
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.
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.
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.
Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there’s going to be another one!
I'm basically a sexless geek. Look at me, I have pasty-white skin, I have acne scars and I'm five-foot-nothing. Does that sound like a real sexual dynamo to you?