Jim Carrey quotes

Born
January 17, 1962 Newmarket, Ontario, Canada.

Occupation
Actor, comedian.

Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, producer and painter. He is known for his energetic slapstick performances. Carrey first gained recognition in America in 1990 after landing a recurring role in the sketch comedy television series In Living Color.

Movies
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)
The Cable Guy (1996)
The Truman Show (1998)

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
– Jim Carrey

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn’t trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
– Jim Carrey

I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.
– Jim Carrey

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.
– Jim Carrey

Originality is really important.
– Jim Carrey

I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
– Jim Carrey

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.
– Jim Carrey

Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
– Jim Carrey

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
– Jim Carrey

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
– Jim Carrey

People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
– Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I’ve picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
– Jim Carrey

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.’
– Jim Carrey

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!’
– Jim Carrey

My life is not unlike Truman’s. I can’t go anywhere.
– Jim Carrey

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
– Jim Carrey

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 Carrey

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.’
– Jim Carrey

It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
– Jim Carrey

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
– Jim Carrey

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.
– Jim Carrey

But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.
– Jim Carrey

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
– Jim Carrey

I’m a hard guy to live with. I’m like a caged animal. I’m up all night walking around the living room. It’s hard for me to come down from what I do.
– Jim Carrey

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.
– Jim Carrey

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
– Jim Carrey

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
– Jim Carrey

If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
– Jim Carrey

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
– Jim Carrey

I just want to be myself.
– Jim Carrey

If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
– Jim Carrey

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don’t know if it’s possible forever and ever.
– Jim Carrey

Maybe 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 Carrey