My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
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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Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
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Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
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Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.
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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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My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.
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It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.
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We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
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I am heaven.
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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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For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
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If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.
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I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.
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I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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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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Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
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Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.
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My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
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When things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh.
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Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.
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I’ve always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.
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I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.
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