Jim Carrey Quotes & Sayings

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes. — Jim Carrey

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you. — Jim Carrey

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. — Jim Carrey

I cannot be contained ... bec ause I am the container — Jim Carrey

All i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that's what they should be doing-the thing they're dying to do all the time. — Jim Carrey

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. — 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. — Jim Carrey

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there? — Jim Carrey

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm. — Jim Carrey

I just wanna hang out. No big deal! — Jim Carrey

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves. — Jim Carrey

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. — Jim Carrey

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view. — Jim Carrey

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge. — Jim Carrey

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities! — Jim Carrey

Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith.
Not hope, but faith.
I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it. — Jim Carrey

You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!" — Jim Carrey

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us. — Jim Carrey

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

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. — Jim Carrey

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so ... It's not a pleasant feeling! — Jim Carrey

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them. — Jim Carrey

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people — Jim Carrey

I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at. — Jim Carrey

I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so great to be special and known by everybody - you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now. — Jim Carrey

I enjoy fame except when I'm with my daughter. Kids stop me all the time and I don't want her to be jealous of the attention. Also, sometimes I just want to be left alone and I refuse to make rubber faces. That's when they start asking, What's the matter, man, don't you like your job? I say, Yeah, I like my job. But I also like having sex, and I'm not going to do that in front of you either. — Jim Carrey

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful. — Jim Carrey

I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass. — Jim Carrey

Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile. — 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

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Jim Carrey

The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people. — Jim Carrey

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man. — Jim Carrey

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. — Jim Carrey

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems. — Jim Carrey

You can fail at what you don't love so you might as well take a chance on doing what you do love. — Jim Carrey

I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can't get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids. — Jim Carrey

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character. — Jim Carrey

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised. — Jim Carrey

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

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. — Jim Carrey

When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe. — Jim Carrey

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. — Jim Carrey

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

My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things. — Jim Carrey

It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't. — Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. — Jim Carrey

I just want to be myself. — 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

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess. — Jim Carrey

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. — Jim Carrey

I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though. — Jim Carrey

For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much. — Jim Carrey

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything. — Jim Carrey

Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough' — Jim Carrey

Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified. — Jim Carrey

I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out. — Jim Carrey

I don't remember yesterday.I pretty much live in the moment. — Jim Carrey

Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny. — Jim Carrey

I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container. — Jim Carrey

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That's been my whole life. — Jim Carrey

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused. — Jim Carrey

My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was. — Jim Carrey

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. — Jim Carrey

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people. — Jim Carrey

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free. — Jim Carrey

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams — Jim Carrey

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. — Jim Carrey

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life. — Jim Carrey

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. — Jim Carrey

Our love is like a red, red rose ... and I am a little thorny. — Jim Carrey

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! — Jim Carrey

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her. — Jim Carrey

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. — Jim Carrey

My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig. — 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

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

Originality is really important. — Jim Carrey

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important. — Jim Carrey

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure." — Jim Carrey

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

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?' — Jim Carrey

Don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's always doors opening. They keep opening. — Jim Carrey

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman. — Jim Carrey

Come back here so that I may brain thee! — Jim Carrey

Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose. — Jim Carrey

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds. — Jim Carrey

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules! — Jim Carrey

My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did. — Jim Carrey

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart — Jim Carrey

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together. — Jim Carrey

Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing. — Jim Carrey

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'. — Jim Carrey

Risk being seen in all of your glory. — Jim Carrey

I hope everybody could get rich and famous ... — Jim Carrey

The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating. — Jim Carrey