Jim Carrey
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?Collection: Wisdom
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.'Collection: Morning
A lot of good love can happen in ten years.Collection: Anniversary
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.Collection: Society
I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.Collection: Funny
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.Collection: Business
If you've got a talent, protect it.Collection: Motivational
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.'Collection: Morning
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.Collection: Money
I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Christmas
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.Collection: Family
My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.Collection: Family
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.Collection: Great
One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.Collection: Hope
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.Collection: Dad
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.Collection: Learning
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.Collection: Learning
But, you know, you can't be a star at home.Collection: Home
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.Collection: Alone
Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.Collection: Cool
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.Collection: Life
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
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.
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
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.
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.
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
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.
Originality is really important.
It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.
Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
I just want to be myself.
Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.