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 CARREYI’ve never been one to sit back and go, ‘I’d better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don’t want to lose them.’
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
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I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.
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The peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.
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Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
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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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150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
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Our love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.
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I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.
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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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I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
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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.
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Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
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There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’
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Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
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I don’t remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.
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