Jim Carrey Quotes

• 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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• 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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• I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I’d have a hairy conniption. I’d just go crazy.

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• I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I’m gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

  Jim Carrey

• 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.

  Jim Carrey

• 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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• I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy.

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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 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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• I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

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• I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.

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• I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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• I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

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• I just want to be myself.

  Jim Carrey

• I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.

  Jim Carrey

• 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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• 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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• I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation. 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 don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.

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• I don’t care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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Jim Carrey (71)

Birth:	17th January, 1962
Nationality:	Canadian
Profession:	Actor, Comedian, Producer, Screenwriter

About

James Eugene Carrey was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada. He is a Canadian actor, comedian, screenwriter and producer. He is known for his highly energetic slapstick performances. His role in several films include: The Sex and Violence Family Hour (also writer), All in Good Taste, Once Bitten, The Dead Pool, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (also writer), Dumb and Dumber, Batman Forever, Liar Liar, Man on the Moon (Won- Golden Globe Award for Best Actor), The Majestic, Bruce Almighty (also producer), Fun with Dick and Jane (also producer), Yes Man, I Love You Phillip Morris, Kick-Ass 2, The Bad Batch, and True Crimes. His role in television include: In Living Color (sketch comedy TV series).

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