My report card always said, ‘Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students’.
JIM CARREYI 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.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that 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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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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If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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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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People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
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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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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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Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.
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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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A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
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I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
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Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.
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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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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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It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
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You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.
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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.
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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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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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Human things have long since jumped the shark.
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So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
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I have no limits. I cannot be contained because I am the container.
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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
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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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My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.
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I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.
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