Mike Myers
Mike Myers Trivia
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Mike was awarded a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame on July 24, 2002. It is located at 7042 Hollywood Blvd, Hollywood, CA.
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Mike participated in a charity auction for the Food Bank of New York City in 2005. He was among a 100 celebrities that decorated a lunch box to be auctioned off.
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Mike's 2008 movie, The Love Guru, was awarded a Razzie for 'worst picture' and 'worst screenplay'. Mike himself was given a separate Razzie for 'worst actor'.
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Mike Myers' comedic genius was recognized as he was given the 'MTV Generation Award' at the 2007 MTV Movie Awards.
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Fellow Saturday Night Live alumnus Chris Farley was originally the voice of Shrek in DreamWorks Animation's 2001 film, Shrek, and had recorded some of the dialogue up until his untimely death in 1997. DreamWorks then re-cast Mike Myers' vocal talents in the title role. A remnant of Farley remains when Shrek uses "finger quotes" - a trademark of Farley's SNL character Bennett Brauer.
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Mike came up with the character Wayne Campell from Wayne's World when he was 11 years old.
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Mike Myers received a star on the walk of fame in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in June 25, 2003.
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Mike used to take dancing lessons in Toronto.
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Mike was a host on the UK show Wide Awake Club.
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Mike owns the last letter ever written by Beatles singer George Harrison, given to him very shortly after Harrison's death and while Austin Powers in Goldmember was in production. The letter compliments him on the Austin Powers movies and asks him for a "Mini Me" doll.
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Mike's salary for the Austin Powers movies are as follows:
Austin Powers- $3,000,000.
Austin Powers 2 - $7,000,000.
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Mike's salaries for the Shrek movies were:
Shrek - $3,000,000.
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In remembrance of his father, Eric, Mike wears the ring his father received from the Encyclopedia Britannica corporation when he was named Salesman of the Year as his wedding band.
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There is a street named Wayne's World Drive in Draper, Utah which is 20 minutes south of Salt Lake City.
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Mike stands 5'7" (1.70 meters) tall.
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Mike's performance as Dr. Evil in the Austin Powers movies is ranked #35 on Premiere Magazine's "100 Greatest Movie Characters of All Time".
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Mike has a street named after him in Scarborough, Ontario: Mike Myers Drive.
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Mike's favorite character to play in the Austin Powers movies is Dr. Evil. His least favorite to play is Fat Bastard.
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Mike supports the Liverpool Football Club - his parents were from Liverpool, UK.
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Mike's production company, Eric's Boy, is named after his father, Eric, an encyclopedia salesman, who died on 22 November 1991 of Alzheimer's.
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Mike's mother studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art before moving to Canada and raising a family.
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Mike carries a British passport. He has said in many interviews that he regards himself as British.
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Mike 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."
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Mike, as a teenager, would act out his Wayne character to girls at parties.
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Mike graduated high school in 1982 and was accepted into Toronto's Second City Comedy ensemble.
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Mike collects model soldiers. He finds the building and painting of the soldiers to be relaxing. His other interests include drawing and painting. He also likes to travel and read and plays hockey and soccer twice a week.
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Mike turned his famous SNL sketch Wayne's World into a movie and a sequel to that movie. Both of which are available on VHS and DVD.
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Mike appears in a Direct TV commercial as Fat Bastard in a clip from Austin Powers. (2006)
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Mike went to the same school and graduated the same year as Will & Grace star Eric McCormack.
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Mike is the youngest of his three brothers.
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Mike has 3 dogs named after hockey players.
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Mike's parents, Eric and Alice, were British citizens.
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Mike married Robin Ruzanin May 22, 1993 and divorced her in 2007. In 2010, Mike married Kelly Tisdale.
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Mike Myers: 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.
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Mike Myers: My theory is that all of Scottish cuisine is based on a dare.
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Mike Myers: 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.
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Mike Myers: In my next life, I would like to be Antonio Banderas. He is so incredibly beautiful. I'm man enough to admit I have a man crush.
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Mike Myers: 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?
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Mike Myers: Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.
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Mike Myers: I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me!
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Mike Myers: 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.
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Mike Myers: Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavor - we're more like celery as a flavor.
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Mike Myers: 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!
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