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Love Quote by 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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Myers is doing what his best characters always do: flattering you while smuggling in the punchline. He opens with the warm, almost diplomatic premise of being "misunderstood" (a cozy badge of national identity), then snaps the emotional thermostat from affection to fury. The move is classic comic misdirection: you think youre headed for a gentle multicultural toast, and instead you get a portrait of people whose feelings run hot enough to be funny.

The comparison to Canadians matters because Myers is a Canadian comic who has spent a career playing with national stereotypes as soft power. Canadians are coded, especially in American pop culture, as polite, restrained, conflict-avoidant. Scots, in a parallel cartoon, are coded as blunt, proud, quick to bristle. By pairing them, he turns "misunderstood" into a shared outsider status, then adds the twist: beneath the politeness (or the presumed dourness) is volatility. Its affectionate, but it also gives permission to laugh at temper, intensity, and the whiplash of intimacy.

"How quickly it can go from love to anger" isnt really about anger; its about closeness. People who can flip that fast are people who care enough to react, who dont stay safely neutral. Calling it "a great dynamic" is Myers the performer admiring the rhythm: comedy needs contrast, sharp turns, emotional snap. Hes also quietly praising a kind of honesty he can mine onstage and in life: warmth that isnt sanitized, family feeling that includes the fight.

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Myers, Mike. (n.d.). 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. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-scottish-people-like-canadians-are-7812/

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Myers, Mike. "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." FixQuotes. Accessed February 2, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-scottish-people-like-canadians-are-7812/.

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"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." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-think-that-scottish-people-like-canadians-are-7812/. Accessed 2 Feb. 2026.

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Mike Myers (born May 25, 1963) is a Comedian from Canada.

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