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My father was always a straight-up funny guy. He was silly. He was my inspiration.

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.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

Dad loved movies, and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

to think something is good, to do something is God.

Here's the plan: we get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for ... one million dollars!

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

When I graduated from high school, I got accepted to York University, Fine Arts film program.

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

Why must I be surrounded by frickin' idiots?

Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.

Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

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

It's hard to be super full of yourself in Canada. If there was a motto of Canada, it would be, "Who do you think you are, eh?"

Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive.

I really just love making comedies; I love doing characters.

I love New York City. I love that I get to live there and I love everything about it.

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.

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

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

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.

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

Everywhere I go, people come up to me on the street and ask me if there's going to be another one!

For me, everything definitely comes from music.

I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.

This crazy thing called love ...

The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.

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

There's a joy in having the molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the night before.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

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

Dad was in the British Army and my mom was in the Royal Air Force, so both of my parents believed in discipline.

You can't think of risks. I have nothing to lose. You either make something that you like, or you don't, and you throw it to the universe.

Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

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

I was well indulged as a child by my relentlessly self-improving, working class parents to express myself.

I knew I wanted to be a father; I didn't know it was going to be this awesome or that my kid would come out so beautiful and lovely.

In fact, NASA doesn't use the F-word; instead, they call failure "early attempts at success.

I like my privacy. I love being a part of [films], but when I'm not doing stuff, I like to go away. I enjoy being a person, a great deal.

My father was a very funny man, and one of my strongest recollections is hearing him laugh. He didn't like people who had no sense of humour.

Enlightenment is lightening up.

I've been frozen for 30 years. I've got to see if my bits and pieces are still working.

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.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Europe is weird songs that would never make it in America.

Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

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

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

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.

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