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 tend to stay up late, not because I’m partying but because it’s the only time of the day when I’m alone and don’t have to be performing.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
-
-
I’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.’
JIM CARREY -
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
JIM CARREY -
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
JIM CARREY -
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.
JIM CARREY -
Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.
JIM CARREY -
I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
JIM CARREY -
My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.
JIM CARREY -
I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.
JIM CARREY -
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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 -
I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.
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 -
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
JIM CARREY -
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREY -
I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
JIM CARREY