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

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

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
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

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

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

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

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

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

Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
Jim Carrey

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
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

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

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
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 report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
Jim Carrey

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

Originality is really important.
Jim Carrey

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