Mike Myers Net Worth

Mike Myers's Quotes

• [June 1999] Austin Powers was born out of trying to celebrate my father's life. My father's favorites were mine -- Peter Sellers, Monty Python, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore . . . my dad was a guy who loved to be silly; he had a highly prized sense of humor. When I would bring friends home to play table hockey in the basement, if my dad didn't think they were funny, he wouldn't let them in the house. "They can't come around", he'd say. :They're not bloody funny!"
• I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
• As a people, the English find male partial nudity and cross-dressing to be very funny. It's definitely a color on our palette, and I follow in that tradition.
• 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.
• [when asked who some of his comic heroes were] Peter Sellers, Dan Aykroyd, the whole original SNL [Saturday Night Live (1975)] cast. Lorne Michaels is a hero of mine. I did a project on him in grade eight. He's a Canadian hero. He's a man of impeccable taste. And Gilda Radner was a big hero of mine.

Interesting Facts about Mike Myers

1. Collects model soldiers. He finds the building and painting of the soldiers to be relaxing.
2. Graduated high school in 1982 and was immediately accepted into Toronto's Second City Comedy ensemble.
3. As a teenager, he would act out his Wayne character to girls at parties.
4. Has 3 dogs named after hockey players.
5. Used to take dancing lessons in Toronto.
6. His character Linda Richman on Saturday Night Live (1975), is based on his ex mother-in-law, Linda Richman.
7. Appeared with Gilda Radner, in a television commercial when he was nine, he cried on the last day of the shooting. Since then, his brothers called him "Sucky Baby".
8. Carries a British Passport. He has said in many interviews that he regards himself as British.
9. His success as Austin Powers in the late 1990s won him a $40 million deal to star in 2 films for Universal. The first was to be Sprockets for which he'd already written the script. In June 2000: he was sued by Universal Pictures for $3.8 million for backing out of his contract to play Dieter in a feature film version of his Saturday Night Live (1975) recurring skit, "Sprockets". Myers was quoted to say he would refuse to honor the $20 million contract rather than "cheating moviegoers with an unacceptable script".
10. His mother studied at London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before moving to Canada and raising a family.
11. His production company, Eric's Boy, is named after his father, Eric, an encyclopaedia salesman, who died on 22 November 1991 of Alzheimer's.
12. Youngest of 3 sons.
13. His parents, Eric and Alice, were British citizens, which is why Myers carries a British passport.
14. Supports Liverpool Football Club - his parents were from Liverpool, UK.
15. Has said his favorite character to play in the Austin Powers movies is Dr. Evil. His least favorite to play is Fat Bastard.
16. In an interview with James Lipton of the Inside the Actors Studio (1994), Myers stated that he met his (ex) wife, Robin Ruzan, in a bar after attending a hockey game where he caught a puck. Later in their relationship, they attended a hockey game and she caught a puck.
17. His favorite sports team is the Toronto Maple Leafs (NHL), and in his movie Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002), the character Mini Me is sporting a Toronto Maple Leafs jersey in the prison scene.
18. Enjoyed playing the role-playing game Dungeons & Dragons when he was young. He has said this give him the inspiration for his Saturday Night Live (1975) character, Lothar of the Hill People.
19. Has a street named after him in Scarborough, Ontario: Mike Myers Drive.
20. He received a star on the Canadian Walk of Fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (June 25, 2003).