 Austin sounds a little bit like Aston Martin, which is the type of car James Bond would drive. |
| 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 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 had done Shrek as a Canadian and I'm very proud to be Canadian, but I knew I could give more to it. |
| I think when I have kids and grandchildren I will be very proud to have them watch this movie. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff. |
| Well, I like how people talk. I like language. You know, Linda Richman spoke in Yiddish. |
| 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. |
| 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 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. |
| 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. |
| My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare. |
| Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. Topics: Show Business |
