If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREYIf you’ve got a talent, protect it.
JIM CARREYI just want to be myself.
JIM CARREYBut, you know, you can’t be a star at home.
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.
JIM CARREYMy focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
JIM CARREYI’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way.
JIM CARREYPsychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
JIM CARREYEither you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
JIM CARREYEverything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.
JIM CARREYThe peace that we’re after lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself.
JIM CARREYOur love is like a red, red rose and I am a little thorny.
JIM CARREYYou know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.
JIM CARREYMaybe 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.
JIM CARREYMy dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
JIM CARREYDesperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
JIM CARREYThere 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!’
JIM CARREY