Mike Myers Quotes

I haven't done much comedy; I would love to. I love doing dramatic roles, but I'd love to do comedy. I think it would be refreshing.

My influences were Peter Sellers and the great British character actors.

I was raised with 'Laurel and Hardy' and 'I Love Lucy' and Jerry Lewis, and I just loved it. And I had a friend in high school and we would just laugh all day and put on skits. You know, it's the Andy Kaufman thing or the Marty Short thing where you're performing in your bedroom for yourself.

Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.

I love comedy, but it has to be hysterical and really amusing; I'm not really a big fan of romantic comedies, in fact I can't stand them. I'm really more of a fan of 'Team America' and 'Dodgeball.'

Will Ferrell makes me laugh a lot when he gets out there and gets crazy.

In the best traditions of American comedy, from its beginnings through the crash-bang comedies of the 1990s and 2000s, Leslie Nielsen skewered the otherwise proper, did it with mischievous delight and convulsed audiences mercilessly.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

The reason I do what I do is because I was influenced by Steve Martin, by Woody Allen, by Bob Newhart, by Carol Burnett, by Lucille Ball.

I usually get cast in more dark, dramatic things, and I would love to do something more comedic.

I've always loved improvised movies like Christopher Guest and the 'Spinal Tap' era of comedy.

When I used to see Rick Moranis do something, to me that was immediately funny. Or George Carlin or Martin Lawrence.

I'm not a big 'scripted comedy' person necessarily. I'm open for wherever comedy can be found.

All techniques of comedy are valid and interesting to me.

Peter Sellers was just a brilliant actor, and also comedic.

I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.

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

It's a great counter to doing the soap because it's a comedy. It's real physical comedy.

I love physical comedy. I love Oscar Wilde, I love Shakespeare comedies, I love improv.

I would love to do something like Austin Powers to show off my comic timing.

Hey, I think comic actors are the best actors.

I think comedy has evolved like every art form, and people probably do less standing around and telling jokes, and more things that have to do with reality.

I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

I love doing comedy and I love watching comedy... I'm more inclined to go watch a Seth Rogen film than a serious Oscar drama.

I like physical comedy. And I like the old comedies.