The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.
JIM CARREYI absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.
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Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
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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.
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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.
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You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
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One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.
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Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
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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.
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Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
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My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.
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Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
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I just want to be myself.
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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.
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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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