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Jim Carrey - From the Art category:
The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Audience category:
I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Choices category:
All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Desperation category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Drawing category:
I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Dreams category:
It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Drunkenness category:
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Drunkenness category:
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Eccentricity category:
Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Editing category:
Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Ego category:
I just want to be myself. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Expression category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Fame category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Fame category:
But, you know, you can't be a star at home. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Guilt category:
I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Happiness category:
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?' (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Humour category:
My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Humour category:
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. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Importance category:
Originality is really important. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Limitations category:
Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Love category:
It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Mentors category:
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Mirrors category:
I practiced 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)
Jim Carrey - From the Mistakes category:
I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Money category:
I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Money category:
I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money... I know things can go away. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Obsession category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Opportunity category:
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Opposites category:
I love playing ego and insecurity combined. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Patriotism category:
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Performance category:
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Profession category:
How will you serve the world? What do they need that you can provide? The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Purpose category:
The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.' (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Recognition category:
Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Risk category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Routine category:
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Sleep category:
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)
Jim Carrey - From the Talent category:
If you've got a talent, protect it. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Time category:
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. (Jim Carrey)
Jim Carrey - From the Universe category:
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)
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