And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours.
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.
And I thought, when I have kids, that's the sort of well told, silly, and fun fairy tale that I would want to take them to. But it was an amazing experience. And I think Shrek is a real classic, a fairy tale classic.
Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.
Cameron is incredibly charming. I've seen Charlie's Angels four times.
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.
Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.
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.
DreamWorks have turned the fairytale world on its head and at the same time it has a great message, so I'm really proud.
Europe is scooters. Europe is five young people on one bench sharing a chocolate bar. Their idea of entertainment and fun is so much different than ours, which is exactly why a movie about them would be funny.
Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
For me, everything definitely comes from music.
I do miss Saturday Night Live, that's for sure. There's nothing like it. I just hosted, and I felt I'd only been away for a week.
I grew up in an English household, so I'm well within my cultural brief, if you will.
I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.
I had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it.
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.
I loved the logistical reality of a guy who wants to take over the world, yet who has a family too.
I never predict catch phrases. But when people come up to me and repeat catch phrases, I find it extremely flattering.
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.
I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie.
My dad loved to laugh. He was very funny and very silly.
My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.
My mum is a trained actress and when I was a kid she used to read fairy tales to 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.
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish.
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 reprises his role of Shrek in the movie, Shrek the third.
Mike used to take dancing lessons in Toronto.
Mike owns the last letter ever written by Beatles singer George Harrison, given to him very shortly after Harrison's death and while Austin Powers in Goldmember was in production. The letter compliments him on the Austin Powers movies and asks him for a "Mini Me" doll.
Mike's salaries for the Shrek movies were: Shrek 1 - $3,000,000. Shrek 2 - $10,000,000.
There is a street named "Wayne's World Drive" in Draper, Utah which is 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
Mike's performance as Dr. Evil in the "Austin Powers" movies is ranked #35 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".
Mike's favorite character to play in the Austin Powers movies is Dr. Evil. His least favorite to play is Fat Bastard.
Mike's production company, Eric's Boy, is named after his father, Eric, an encyclopaedia salesman, who died on 22 November 1991 of Alzheimer's.
Mike carries a British passport. He has said in many interviews that he regards himself as British.
Mike, As a teenager, would act out his Wayne character to girls at parties.
Mike collects model soldiers, he finds the building and painting of the soldiers to be relaxing.
Mike appears in a Direct TV commercial as Fat Bastard in a clip from Austin Powers. (2006)
Mike is the youngest of his three brothers.
Mike's parents, Eric and Alice, were British citizens.
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