I have very happy memories of fairy tales. My mother used…

Canada is a country of ingredients without a cuisine; we're a country with musicians without an indigenous instrument; Toronto's a city that doesn't even…

— Mike Myers

I grew up in Toronto and as long as I can remember, as long as there was cable, even those old cable boxes that…

— Mike Myers

I'm from Toronto. It's a lot more laid back. When you are thrust into different environments, there is an odd adaptation period. And then…

— Mike Myers

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,…

— Mike Myers

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.…

— Mike Myers

Here about the beach I wandered, nourishing a youth sublime With the fairy tales of science, and the long result of Time.

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

I grew up watching monster movies and horror movies, which I felt were like fairy tales and I think this always spoke to me.…

— Tim Burton

“What the Boy chiefly dabbled in was natural history and fairy tales, and he just took them as they came, in a sandwichy sort…

— Kenneth Grahame

Letters crossing in the post, unfamiliar tunes heard three times in one day, the way that blows of fate descend upon the same bowed…

— Fay Weldon

Look at Jane Austen. Her characters derive in a reasonably straight line from fairy tales.

— Andrew Davies

Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn…

— Walt Disney

“Yes sir, the fish was left in place of the crystal ball. It's been bagged and tagged for analysis.” Great. Now we have another…

— A.F. Stewart

“If this were a fairy tale, this would be the part where the fishboy appears and Diana shoots him through the heart. Because he…

— Hannah Moskowitz

I have always been fascinated by the supernatural elements in stories, whether fairy tales, myths, film or literature.

— Trudi Canavan

“From that time on they both looked forward to sleeping together. I might even say that the goal of their lovemaking was not so…

— Milan Kundera