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.
JIM CARREYIt is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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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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People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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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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Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
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I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.
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I don’t remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.
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If I’m not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
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Human things have long since jumped the shark.
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My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
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I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that 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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Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
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I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
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If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.
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I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.
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