I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.
JIM CARREYI’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.
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Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.
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As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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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 don’t remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.
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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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People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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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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150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
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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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My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.
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Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
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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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Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.
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You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.
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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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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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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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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.
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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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If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
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I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.
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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 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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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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Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don’t let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.
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