Jim Carrey Quotes

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

What's yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That's all you have to figure out. ~ Jim Carrey

If you give up on your dreams, what's left? ~ Jim Carrey

Hi I'm B-Rok of the Backstreet Boys, Jim Carrey wannabe. ~ Brian Littrell

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. ~ Jim Carrey

I hope everybody could get rich and famous ... ~ Jim Carrey

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves. ~ Jim Carrey

The dating process is not normal for me. ~ Jim Carrey

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. ~ Jim Carrey

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people ~ Jim Carrey

I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes. ~ Jim Carrey

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. ~ Jim Carrey

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. ~ Jim Carrey

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities! ~ Jim Carrey

I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now. ~ Jim Carrey

I just wanna hang out. No big deal! ~ Jim Carrey

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet. ~ Jim Carrey

I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle. ~ Jim Carrey

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free. ~ Jim Carrey

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

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy. ~ Jim Carrey

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character. ~ Jim Carrey

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'. ~ Jim Carrey

My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did. ~ Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it. ~ Ben Stiller

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. ~ Jim Carrey

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

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say. ~ Jim Carrey

Risk being seen in all of your glory. ~ Jim Carrey

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. ~ Jim Carrey

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. ~ 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

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion. ~ Jim Carrey

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour. ~ Jim Carrey

Usually you regret the things you say no to. ~ Jim Carrey

A better you means a better universe. ~ Jim Carrey

I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases. ~ Jim Carrey

I just want to be myself. ~ Jim Carrey

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!' ~ Jim Carrey

Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes. ~ Jim Carrey

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused. ~ Jim Carrey

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming. ~ Jim Carrey

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. ~ Jim Carrey

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. ~ Jim Carrey

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are. ~ Jim Carrey

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together. ~ Jim Carrey

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. ~ Jim Carrey

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself. ~ Jim Carrey

The Times Square Incident wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a Jim Carrey movie. The terrorist locked the keys to the safe house he was going to escape to in the carbomb. And I love that he locked the carbomb. Nobody's getting my Ipod. Then he left the keys to carbomb hanging out of the tailgate of the carbomb, and built the carbomb out of fertilizer that wouldn't explode. I have been doing comedy for 25 years and I have never been that funny. ~ Christopher Titus

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us. ~ Jim Carrey

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems. ~ Jim Carrey

Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough' ~ Jim Carrey

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it. ~ Jim Carrey

I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though. ~ Jim Carrey

Our love is like a red, red rose ... and I am a little thorny. ~ Jim Carrey

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music. ~ Jim Carrey

I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me it means whatever you take out into the world is what you're going to draw out. like those days when you're all yang and no yin, and you're fighting with people inside, and you can't calm yourself down, and suddenly you're pulled over by the cops. everything goes wrong in the same day because you created it. so, if you get heaven within you, it'll be all around you. if hell is within you, it'll be around you. it's always created here first. ~ Jim Carrey

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen. ~ Jim Carrey

My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things. ~ Jim Carrey

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? ~ Jim Carrey

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you. ~ Jim Carrey

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. ~ Jim Carrey

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely. ~ Jim Carrey

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. ~ 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

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal. ~ Jim Carrey

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you. ~ Jim Carrey

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth. ~ Jim Carrey

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

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

To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. ~ Jim Carrey

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. ~ Jim Carrey

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view. ~ Jim Carrey

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams ~ Jim Carrey

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. ~ Jim Carrey

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. ~ Jim Carrey

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time. ~ Jim Carrey

Ultimately, we're not the avatars we create. We're not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling. ~ Jim Carrey

I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown. ~ Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. ~ 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

Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me. ~ LeVar Burton

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me. ~ Jim Carrey

Come back here so that I may brain thee! ~ Jim Carrey

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.' ~ Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. ~ Jim Carrey

I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger. ~ 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 like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny. ~ Rupert Grint

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

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it. ~ Jim Carrey

You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love. ~ Jim Carrey

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts - they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them. ~ 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

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart ~ Jim Carrey

While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox. ~ Simon Hoggart

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

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. ~ Jim Carrey

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself. ~ Jim Carrey

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul. ~ Jim Carrey