Jay Roach Quotes

When we had ideas that earned there way in [Austin Powers], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.' We only auditioned one guy - Verne Troyer - and at the time I said, 'we have to get this guy, get him life insurance, whatever he needs' because there was no other way or actor to do it. It was amazing to me just to talk to him...he was Mini-Me.

I have a feeling when I'm 80 years old I'm going to get a phone call: There's going to be another Rocky.

After all these years, almost 30 years later, whenever I'm on the street, someone will call out, 'Who you gonna call?'

We make the oldest stories new when we succeed, and we are trapped by the old stories when we fail.

'The Hangover' was, like, solid. I laughed a bit, you know. Seven out of 10, maybe. But I made it 32 minutes into 'Hangover 2' before I walked out.

Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.

Behold, at this hour our moral history is being preserved for eternity. Processes are at work which will perpetuate our every act and word and thought.

I'm always going to be known for Mini Me, and it's fine.

The challenge for us is to try and come back and raise the bar above what we did the last time. We're coming back with season three of 'Twin Peaks' after a 25-year absence.

There is a lot of pressure to top yourself... to come up with a 'Rumours II,' and that seemed like a trap.

I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.

That 'Zombieland' thing was pretty great. I think I didn't realize just how lucky I was after that first movie, to have something so special and to have a cast that's so special.

We made 'Housefull 4' because 1, 2 and 3 were loved by the audience.

You're supposed to not like the 'Austin Powers' movies because people ruin the catchphrases. 'Austin Powers' is so funny.

You've got a lot of Tupac clones, but I don't think I'm one of them. I just think I give people a little piece of the feeling he gave them.

Good to hear that 'Tutak Tutak Tutiya' is being compared with 'Bhool Bhulaiyya.' It was a super hit film.

The best thing I can say about 'Teen Wolf Too' is that it's the only time anyone ever referred to me as Preston Sturges. Leonard Maltin wrote that 'Teen Wolf Too' made 'Teen Wolf' look like Preston Sturges. I've always prided myself on that.

I'm truly excited to be a part of two successful franchises - 'Yamla Pagla Deewana Phir Se' and now 'Housefull 4.'

I am really happy and ecstatic that 'Grand Masti' has been such a huge success.

I did see 'Zoolander II,' and I thought it was a cool movie, but I liked the first one way more.

It's tough to make a sequel that stands up to the original especially one that has, over the course of time, become a bit of a cult favorite.

And this is the eternal law. For, Evil often stops short at istelf and dies with the doer of it! but Good, never.

I am the rightful heir to the flaming global throne of evil. I WILL TAKE THIS WORLD AS MINE, so if you people could just cooperate it would be very nice.

Malicious men may die, but malice never.

With the proper training, I could've been an evil genius.