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.
JIM CARREYMy report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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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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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.
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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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Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
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Originality is really important.
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I just want to be myself.
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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I don’t remember yesterday. I pretty much live in the moment.
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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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I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
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When things are really bad the only thing to do is laugh.
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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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Solitude is dangerous. It’s very addictive.
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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.’
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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’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.
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People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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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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One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.
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I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.
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Flowers don’t worry about how they’re going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
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For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
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Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else.
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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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Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
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