Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
Having a kid is like falling in love for the first time when you're 12, but every day.
While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.
My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
The interesting thing about life is, there is what you think is going to happen, and what actually happens.
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.
I like smart jokes, I like dumb jokes, and I like dumb jokes done smartly.
Everything I do is autobiographical in some way. 'Wayne's World' was me growing up in the suburbs of Toronto and listening to heavy metal, and 'Austin Powers' was every bit of British culture that my father, who passed away in 1991, had forced me to watch and taught me to love.
Enlightenment is lightening up.
If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
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?"
Marriage can be viewed as the waiting room for death.
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?
Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.
Here's the plan. We get the warhead and we hold the world ransom for... ONE MILLION DOLLARS!
I feel entirely grateful and appreciative of being able to make something up and do it, and I'm very grateful how well it's gone. I'm a guy from Toronto who just wanted to be an actor since he was eight so it's all kind-of crazy. Shrek has been wonderfully successful, it did really well in the States, and so it's magical to me, still. I'm still that kid from Toronto.
I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.
I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
I love making stuff. There's a joy in having the first molecule of an idea, then testing it in front of audiences at secret shows that people only know about the day before. I videotape those, study them, enjoy being in the character and figuring out the movie.
The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.
Very good training to just be a person is growing up in Canada. People say a lot of things about Canada, like that it's boring, but if you look around the world, you can praise boring. It's a very civilized place to grow up. I'm very proud of it.
Europe to me is young people trying to appear middle-aged and middle-aged people trying to appear young.
Uh oh, this guy needs coffee and croolers stat.
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.
The peanut is neither a pea nor a nut. Discuss.
