Quotes

“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

“I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.” Jim Carrey

“I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.” Jim Carrey

“It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.” Jim Carrey

“Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.” Jim Carrey

“My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.” Jim Carrey

“Originality is really important.” Jim Carrey

“People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.” Jim Carrey

“Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.” Jim Carrey

“Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.” Jim Carrey

“You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.” Jim Carrey

“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.” Jim Carrey

“For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.” Jim Carrey

“Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!” Jim Carrey

“I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.” Jim Carrey