We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
JIM CARREYI’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.
More Jim Carrey Quotes
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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 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 wished people could realize all of their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.
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Usually you regret the things you say no to.
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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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The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
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I 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.
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Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
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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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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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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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Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
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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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There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’
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