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Jim Carrey
Quotes by Jim Carrey
Quotes by Jim Carrey
“Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”
Jim Carrey
“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?”
Jim Carrey
“If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.”
Jim Carrey
“Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.”
Jim Carrey
“I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.”
Jim Carrey
“My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.”
Jim Carrey
“I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
Jim Carrey
“I love playing ego and insecurity combined.”
Jim Carrey
“Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches.”
Jim Carrey
“If you've got a talent, protect it.”
Jim Carrey
“Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.”
Jim Carrey
“I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.”
Jim Carrey
“I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.”
Jim Carrey
“I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.”
Jim Carrey
“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'”
Jim Carrey
“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
Jim Carrey
“I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'”
Jim Carrey
“Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.”
Jim Carrey
“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”
Jim Carrey
“I just want to be myself.”
Jim Carrey
“I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.”
Jim Carrey
“I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.”
Jim Carrey
“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.”
Jim Carrey
“I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.”
Jim Carrey
“I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.”
Jim Carrey
“But, you know, you can't be a star at home.”
Jim Carrey
“I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.”
Jim Carrey
“I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.”
Jim Carrey
“I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.”
Jim Carrey
“I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.”
Jim Carrey
