Carrey Jim Quotes & Sayings

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

I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my garden, and i go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it. — 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

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 feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today. — Josh Gad

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

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal. — Jim Carrey

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. — Jim Carrey

I was a giant fan of 'Whose Line Is It Anyway' in high school, and I was obsessed with Jim Carrey and cut out any picture of Jim Carrey that ever came in any kind of magazine. I put it all over my walls. At the time, I thought humor was just repeating lines from 'Ace Ventura' ad nauseum in the back of my advanced math class. — Jordan Klepper

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you're sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It's on the other side of that, when you don't make the sandwich. It's about sacrifice ... It's about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That's what I believe, anyway. I'm always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel. — Jim Carrey

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul. — Jim Carrey

I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist. — Laurie Holden

I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird! — Jim Carrey

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely. — Jim Carrey

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world. — Jim Carrey

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. — Jim Carrey

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself. — Jim Carrey

The Times Square Incident wasn't a terrorist attack, it was a Jim Carrey movie. The terrorist locked the keys to the safe house he was going to escape to in the carbomb. And I love that he locked the carbomb. Nobody's getting my Ipod. Then he left the keys to carbomb hanging out of the tailgate of the carbomb, and built the carbomb out of fertilizer that wouldn't explode. I have been doing comedy for 25 years and I have never been that funny. — Christopher Titus

Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin. A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times. — J. Robert Spencer

I left my apartment in London and I sold everything. I literally had $1000 and a suitcase when I got on the plane. The next day I enrolled in my first acting class. We had some great people, Jim Carrey, Ellen DeGeneres, Molly Ringwald. It was very inspirational. — Jane Leeves

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. — Jim Carrey

I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle. — 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'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else. — Jim Carrey

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

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

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. — 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

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not the fame because it's a pain in the ass, but it's really the person in the seat you think about when you sit in the rooms and write, and you do all the things you have to do. — 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

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

Working with Jim Carrey is an absolute gas. I have never laughed so hard for so long. Had he been on-board for the sequel of Dumb & Dumber, I would've jumped on, with no hesitation. — Jeff Daniels

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. — Jim Carrey

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though. — Jim Carrey

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

My parents are my major supporters. I look up to Denzel Washington, Jack Nicholson and Jim Carrey. They have all opened my mind and helped me with my craft. — Adam Hicks

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

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

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much! — 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

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 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

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. — Jim Carrey

I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. — 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

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

I don't think more concentration is required for Robert De Niro to do what he does as for Jim Carrey to do what he does. — Eddie Murphy

I'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff
in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied ... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts. — Jim Carrey

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour. — Jim Carrey

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape. — Jim Carrey

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that. — Jim Carrey

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts - they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them. — Jim Carrey

Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you. — 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

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry. — 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

Originality is really important. — Jim Carrey

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

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean. — Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. — 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

I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me it means whatever you take out into the world is what you're going to draw out. like those days when you're all yang and no yin, and you're fighting with people inside, and you can't calm yourself down, and suddenly you're pulled over by the cops. everything goes wrong in the same day because you created it. so, if you get heaven within you, it'll be all around you. if hell is within you, it'll be around you. it's always created here first. — 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

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry! — Jim Carrey

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

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

I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me. — 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

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. — Jim Carrey

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater. — 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

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me. — LeVar Burton

Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public's desire for him to be funny simply because he's so good at it. — Ben Stiller

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

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac. — Jim Carrey

I knew since third grade I wanted to be Jim Carrey. His freedom, his goofiness, his crazy, loud, sudden energy. I told my family I was going to be a pediatrician, but in the back of my mind, I was like, 'Nope, I'm going to be the biggest movie star ever.' — King Bach

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. — Jim Carrey

To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. — Jim Carrey

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

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him. — Jim Carrey

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me. — Jim Carrey

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

Historically, Hollywood comedy has arrived in skinny envelopes. From fence post Buster Keaton to herky-jerky Jerry Lewis to wiry nerve-bundle Woody Allen to hung-loose Richard Pryor to whippy contortionist Jim Carrey, its comics and clowns have tended to be sliced thin and bendable. — James Wolcott

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

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen. — Jim Carrey

I think people think Jim Carrey's just wild and crazy. He really is very disciplined. It is true of Eddie Murphy and Robin Williams as well. — Christine Baranski

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. — Jim Carrey

It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy. — Steve Guttenberg

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

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