Mike Myers Gives Advice to Young Performers: ‘Don’t Want to Be Famous’

“I’ve never thought that I was going to be discovered. I just didn’t think that – I just thought I’d be somebody who was a hard worker. And for me things started to happen once I completely gave up the concept of being discovered, and I in essence discovered what I wanted to do. That would be my advice to young performers: Don’t want to be famous. Want to be legendary, but in many ways, fame is the industrial disease of creativity – it’s a sludgy byproduct of making things.”

- Mike Myers gives some stellar advice to aspiring performers in a new interview with Marc Maron.

Mike Myers Gives Advice to Young Performers: ‘Don’t […]