It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
JIM CARREYI 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.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
-
-
A better you means a better universe.
JIM CARREY -
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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 -
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
JIM CARREY -
I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.
JIM CARREY -
I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.
JIM CARREY -
I’ve always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.
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 -
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 -
My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.
JIM CARREY -
Human things have long since jumped the shark.
JIM CARREY -
Usually you regret the things you say no to.
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 -
I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.
JIM CARREY -
Isn’t it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?
JIM CARREY -
My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.
JIM CARREY -
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 -
One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.
JIM CARREY -
This is the voice of your ego. If you listen to it, there will always be someone who seems to be doing better than you.
JIM CARREY -
Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
JIM CARREY -
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
JIM CARREY -
People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
JIM CARREY -
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
JIM CARREY -
If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
JIM CARREY -
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
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