Humor & Life Quote by Mike Myers

There is a quiet humility baked into this line, but it’s not just humility; it’s a comedian’s survival strategy. Mike Myers frames the experience as pure fun ("I had a blast") while keeping a small, persistent doubt on the table: why was he the obvious choice for someone weird? That tension is the point. Comedy careers are built on being legible to other people, and Myers is naming the moment when that legibility turns into typecasting.

The word "they" matters. It externalizes the judgment and hints at the machinery behind casting: executives, audiences, marketers, the collective hive mind that decides what a person “is.” Myers isn’t asking why he played a strange character; he’s asking why the industry saw his strangeness as a neat, bankable package. It’s self-awareness with an edge, the kind that acknowledges how a persona can become a product.

Calling the character "strange" also reads as a gentle undercut. Myers has spent decades turning oddballs into cultural touchstones, from heightened sketch characters to full-blown franchise icons. The subtext is that the public tends to treat these creations as accidental extensions of the performer rather than crafted inventions. His doubt is less existential than diagnostic: the laugh is real, the success is real, but the identity assigned to him might be a caricature. That’s the comedian’s trap door - you can win big and still wonder who, exactly, got hired.