Jim Carrey Quotes

• I hope everybody could get rich and famous and will have everything they ever dreamed of, so they will know that its not the answer.

  Jim Carrey

  Topics in Dream, Inspirational

  Tags in Famous, Answer

• I wish everyone could get rich and famous and have everything they ever dreamed of so they would know that’s not the answer.

  Jim Carrey

  Topics in Dream

  Tags in Famous, Wish

• 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

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

  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

• 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.

  Jim Carrey

• We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

  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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.

  Jim Carrey

• Originality is really important.

  Jim Carrey

• 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.

  Jim Carrey

• My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

  Jim Carrey

• My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.

  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

• My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.

  Jim Carrey

• My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

  Jim Carrey

• 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.

  Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey (71)

Birth:	17th January, 1962
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter

About

James Eugene Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances. His role in several films include: The Sex and Violence Family Hour (also writer), All in Good Taste, Once Bitten, The Dead Pool, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (also writer), Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever, Liar Liar, Man on the Moon (Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), The Majestic, Bruce Almighty (also producer), Fun with Dick and Jane (also producer), Yes Man, I Love You Phillip Morris, Kick-Ass 2, The Bad Batch, and True Crimes. His role in television include: In Living Color (sketch comedy TV series).

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