Quotes By Jim Carrey

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

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.

I praticed 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.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

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.

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

I just want to be myself.

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

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.

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

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

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.'

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.

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.