Jim Carrey Quotes

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

Funny, Great, Woman

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

Wisdom, Dreams, Death

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

Pain, Forward, Regret

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

Life, Afraid, Either

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

Life, Pain, Forget

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.
Jim Carrey

Family, Through, Hell

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

Life, Beautiful, Serious

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.
Jim Carrey

Crazy, Mother, Saying

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.
Jim Carrey

Learning, Human, Learn

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.'
Jim Carrey

Morning, Good, Beautiful

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

Laugh, Career, Cry

If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey

Motivational, Talent, Protect

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey

Love, Insecurity, Ego

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
Jim Carrey

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
Jim Carrey

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.
Jim Carrey

Mean, Strange, Year

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

Learning, Point, Desperate

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

Money, Morning, Down

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

Since, Started, Fans

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

Good, Philosophy, Trying

I just want to be myself.
Jim Carrey

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

Respect, Happy, Try

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

Happy, Career, Place

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.
Jim Carrey

Society, Before, Sometimes

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

Time, Alone, Late

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Nationality: Canadian

Born: January 17, 1962

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