Mike Myers Quotes
Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
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I believe in the institution of marriage and it's like a tag to cement the relationship for your friends, family and public.
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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I like to keep my private life private.
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I guess I am a rapper. It's weird to be called that, or tell someone that's your profession.
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I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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Maybe I just wasn't a show-biz type. I didn't miss performing at all.
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When I came out, I told my stepmother Gladys, and she just said she had known for years and was glad I wasn't lying anymore.
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I come from an art-school background, and I still feel that in my music, it's about exploration and challenging myself, about putting myself in a place that's frightening because I haven't been there before.
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What I increasingly felt, in marriage and in motherhood, was that to live as a woman and to live as a feminist were two different and possibly irreconcilable things.
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It sometimes feels like I'm not doing anything.
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I was a very shy child. I remember being in a kindergarten open house with my mother and children saying 'Hi' to me, and I still remember feeling this way - but I don't know why - but I wouldn't even say 'Hi' back. I was that shy.
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People are sensible enough to know who's dragging my name in dirt for publicity.
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When I was a young guy, when I first started with G.E., Jack Welch sent us all to Japan because in those days Japan was gonna crush us. And we learned a lot about Japan when we were there. But over the subsequent 30 years, the Japanese companies all fell behind. And the reason why they fell behind is because they didn't globalize.
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Our body is the temple of our spirit.
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I think that people are most comfortable when they can put you in a box - and that's very easy to do that when someone can put you in more serious roles. I'm not blaming them for that - it's just up to me to show people what I can do.
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I'd love to be able to do a comedy like 'Dr. Strangelove.' I'm not a very serious person. Really, I'm very silly.
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There's a tradition in American fiction that is deadly serious and earnest - like the Steinbeckian social novel.
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Things are very simple to be honest: when we arrive at the studio for a session, we just get going and let it go naturally and improvise as we go along, this is why it is always so magical when we go into a studio. It is just so natural for us to put a song together.
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Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
