Jim Carrey Quotes

#1. The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,' or 'FFC.

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#2. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

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#3. 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.

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#4. There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.

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#5. I don't remember yesterday.I pretty much live in the moment.

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

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#7. For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

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#8. Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!

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#9. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

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#10. 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!

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#11. I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

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#12. When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

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#13. 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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#14. 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.

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#15. 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

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#16. 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.

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#17. Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

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#18. Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

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#19. 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.

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#20. 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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#21. A better you means a better universe.

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#22. There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

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#23. My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

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#24. Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

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#25. 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!

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#26. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

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#27. I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

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#28. 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.

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#29. 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.

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

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#31. I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

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#32. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

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#33. 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.

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#34. Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

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#35. If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.

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

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#37. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

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#38. It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

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

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#40. 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.

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#41. 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."

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#42. I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

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#43. 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.

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#44. 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.

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#45. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

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#46. You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.

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#47. I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

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#48. Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

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#49. My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

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#50. 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.

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#51. 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.

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#52. I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

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

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#54. The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

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#55. 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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#56. I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

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#57. Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.

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#58. 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.

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#59. I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.

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

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#61. You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

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#62. Come back here so that I may brain thee!

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#63. Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

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

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#65. I practiced 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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#66. I hope everybody could get rich and famous ...

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#67. That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

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#68. It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

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#69. 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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#70. 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.

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

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#72. Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

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

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#74. 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!'

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#75. I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

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#76. 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.

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#77. 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

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#78. Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

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#79. 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.

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#80. 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

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#81. Our love is like a red, red rose ... and I am a little thorny.

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#82. One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

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#83. Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

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#84. 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.

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#85. I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.

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#86. The dating process is not normal for me.

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#87. 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.

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#88. My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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#89. 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.

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#90. 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!

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#91. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

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#92. 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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#93. 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.

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#94. 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.

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#95. I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

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#96. I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.

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

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#98. I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally,you have to wait to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.

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#99. Ultimately, we're not the avatars we create. We're not the pictures on the film stock. We are the light that shines through it. All else is just smoke and mirrors. Distracting, but not truly compelling.

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#100. I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion.

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