--- title: "7 Austin Quotes By Jay Roach" description: "7 Austin quotes by Jay Roach. Plus more from Jay Roach and more Austin sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/jay-roach-8154_austin_mini-me-was-the-pint-sized-clone-that-wa_683505.png" --- > [ Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy \[in Austin Powers\]. That concept earned the… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/mini-me-was-the-pint-sized-clone-that-was-the-perpetuation-of-dr-evil/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a9d/jay-roach-8154_austin_mini-me-was-the-pint-sized-clone-that-wa_683505.png) > [ I love Dr. Evil \[from Austin Powers\] as a walking, talking, narcissistic manifestation of everything screwed up about human existence - his… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/i-love-dr-evil-from-austin-powers-as-a-walking-talking-narcissistic/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a66/jay-roach-8154_austin_i-love-dr-evil-from-austin-powers-as-a-w_909788.jpg) > [The success of the second 'Austin Powers' caught us by surprise a little bit. We had decided not to do even a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/the-success-of-the-second-austin-powers-caught-us-by-surprise-a/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e1d/jay-roach-8154_audience_the-success-of-the-second-austin-powers_927368.png) > [I do love DVD and I've always taken them seriously. You know, on the Austin things, we really put a ton of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/i-do-love-dvd-and-i-ve-always-taken-them-seriously-you-know-on-the/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2eb/jay-roach-8154_austin_i-do-love-dvd-and-i-ve-always-taken-them_2283324.png) > [ When we did the first sequel \[of the Austin Powers\] , it was on coattails of the first one doing so well… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/when-we-did-the-first-sequel-of-the-austin-powers-it-was-on-coattails/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/jay-roach-8154_austin_when-we-did-the-first-sequel-of-the-aust_2386299.png) > [To this day, people ask me where is Austin Powers 4? I don't have that answer, it so hard to come up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/to-this-day-people-ask-me-where-is-austin-powers-4-i-don-t-have-that/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/429/jay-roach-8154_answers_to-this-day-people-ask-me-where-is-austi_2412085.png) > [ When we had ideas that earned there way in \[Austin Powers\], it began to get okay. The hook for me was 'Mini-Me.'… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/when-we-had-ideas-that-earned-there-way-in-austin-powers-it-began-to/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5fd/jay-roach-8154_actors_when-we-had-ideas-that-earned-there-way_3196328.jpg) ## Other authors on Austin ## More by Jay Roach > [You could get in rehearsals, pre-production, anything that would actually contribute to the understanding of how a film gets made. I actually find those…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/you-could-get-in-rehearsals-pre-production-anything-that-would/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [But I always reassure them that as far as my contractual rights can go, I will protect them and make sure that they have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/but-i-always-reassure-them-that-as-far-as-my-contractual-rights-can/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [ That's why we had Louis C.K. portray the harder line Communist, to accuse \[Dalton\] Trumbo of being a hypocrite. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/that-s-why-we-had-louis-c-k-portray-the-harder-line-communist-to/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [It was an interesting process trying to get Bob to talk about the film because he's such a shy person. He generally likes to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/it-was-an-interesting-process-trying-to-get-bob-to-talk-about-the/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [The commentary track became a lot like the movie and there are some funny, long, awkward pauses that you can tell we're just trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/the-commentary-track-became-a-lot-like-the-movie-and-there-are-some/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [ For Bryan \[Cranston \] to go back in time and become this larger-than-life and somewhat theatrical guy, who performed his ideas and rhetoric in… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/for-bryan-cranston-to-go-back-in-time-and-become-this-larger-than/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [When Dalton Trumbo and his friends joined the Communist Party it was 1943, and Russia was our ally in World War II. This was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/when-dalton-trumbo-and-his-friends-joined-the-communist-party-it-was/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [We had to do the same thing here. To top that sequel was quite a task. Mike had a couple of good conceptual humour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/we-had-to-do-the-same-thing-here-to-top-that-sequel-was-quite-a-task/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [I figure if it's turns out well the film will have its own momentum and will carry into the video release. So it's hard…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/i-figure-if-it-s-turns-out-well-the-film-will-have-its-own-momentum/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [ \[Dalton\] Trumbo wrote this incredible pamphlet, almost on the level of Tom Paine's 'Common Sense,' called 'The Time of the Toad.' It's an exquisitely… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/dalton-trumbo-wrote-this-incredible-pamphlet-almost-on-the-level-of/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [People are willing to throw our civilization under the bus to discredit the existing system, without any proposed solution to the problems that they're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/people-are-willing-to-throw-our-civilization-under-the-bus-to/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [I was very interested in politics in college and was heading to be a lawyer. I have a degree in economics and I was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/i-was-very-interested-in-politics-in-college-and-was-heading-to-be-a/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/i-like-to-shoot-a-lot-of-choices-i-like-a-lot-of-stuff-and-so-i-push/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [Sometimes perfecting the one thing can be the enemy of getting any traction on anything else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/sometimes-perfecting-the-one-thing-can-be-the-enemy-of-getting-any/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) > [ Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy \[in Austin Powers\]. That concept earned the sequel. ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jay-roach/mini-me-was-the-pint-sized-clone-that-was-the-perpetuation-of-dr-evil/) [Jay Roach](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jay-roach/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/austin/jay-roach/#itemlist", "name": "7 Austin Quotes By Jay Roach", "numberOfItems": 7, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Mini-Me was the pint sized clone that was the perpetuation of Dr. Evil's own legacy [in Austin Powers]. 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