Top 100 Carrey Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Carrey

#1. Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

#2. I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

#3. It's what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I'm about.

Ben Stiller

#4. That's where humour lives for me. In the body. The Steve Martin kind of stuff or Jim Carrey, that's what I like. I've always felt that's what I would like to do.

Al Pacino

#5. While it is entirely untrue that Canadians lack a sense of humour, the funniest ones tend to head south: Dan Aykroyd, Jim Carrey, Michael J. Fox.

Simon Hoggart

#6. I used to see Jim [Carrey] in comedy clubs and tell him 'This isn't going to get you anywhere. What you're good at is that nice Jimmy Stewart stuff.' Thank God he never listened.

Jane Leeves

#7. Hi I'm B-Rok of the Backstreet Boys, Jim Carrey wannabe.

Brian Littrell

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

Laurie Holden

#9. I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

Sebastian Stan

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. I do a lot of teen shows and voice over work for animation, so when I got the part in 'The Number 23,' it was really cool because now I get to be in a movie with Jim Carrey. Acting in this movie was really a learning experience for me.

Paul Butcher

#13. If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

Peter Farrelly

#14. It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Steve Buscemi

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. If you have the opportunity to watch Nathan Fillion or Jim Carrey do a scene, it's like getting a Ph.D. in acting.

Molly Quinn

#18. I'd say people that really inspired me at first were like, Dustin Hoffman, Jim Carrey ... serious Jim Carrey though.

Logan Lerman

#19. I liked Jim Carrey from the very beginning.

Robert Forster

#20. 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

#21. 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

#22. 18. Conor McGregor BONUS book 19. LeBron James BONUS book 20. Jim Carrey BONUS book 21. Donald Trump BONUS book 22. Arnold Schwarzenegger BONUS book 23. --- SUPER SEXY

Nick O'Connor

#23. It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.

Steve Guttenberg

#24. I don't think I have the pulling power of Jim Carrey.

Dev Patel

#25. There's a lot of very funny people I'd love to work with that I've never met, of course. I love Steve Martin and Jim Carrey.

Dick Van Dyke

#26. 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

#27. I wanted to be in Jim Carrey comedy movies before I met him. I wanted to be a comedian on Stage 19, yukking it up.

Jenny McCarthy

#28. I like all Jim Carrey films. They're really funny.

Rupert Grint

#29. Jim Carrey and my dad were best friends. He would always be in my house and stuff like that.

Damon Wayans Jr.

#30. Boys from my generation all love Jim Carrey! But you know, just being in his house with him and pitching jokes that he would act out, literally felt like the dreams that I had, so it was amazing.

John Francis Daley

#31. I hate smoking sections. Unless we're talking about the movie 'The Mask' with Jim Carrey. Then the smoking section is my favorite part.

Harris Wittels

#32. My idol growing up was Charlie Chaplin. I was obsessed with him. I mean, while other kids were watching Jim Carrey and the likes in the '90s, I was watching Charlie Chaplin films, because I was a bit of a geek. I became obsessed with this idea of physical comedy.

Josh Gad

#33. I would like to work with Jean Reno, and I think it would be amazing to work with Jim Carrey. I would quite like to work with Robert De Niro and probably Christopher Walken.

Thomas Sangster

#34. I feel like Jim Carrey is probably the closest thing to a true physical comedian that we have working today.

Josh Gad

#35. 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

#36. 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

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

Jim Carrey

#38. My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Jim Carrey

#39. 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.

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#40. I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

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#41. The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.

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#42. 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

#43. I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

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#44. I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

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

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#46. 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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#47. I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.

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#48. I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

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

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

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#52. The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

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

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#54. 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.

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#55. 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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#56. 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.

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

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#58. 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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#59. 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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#60. When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

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#61. 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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#62. 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.

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#63. Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

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#64. When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

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#65. 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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#66. It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

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#67. 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.

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#68. 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.

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#69. 50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

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#70. 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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#71. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

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#72. 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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#73. 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.

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#74. 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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#75. 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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#76. I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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#77. 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!

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

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#79. 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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#80. 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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#81. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

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#82. Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic ... is counterproductive!

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#83. 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.

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#84. 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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#85. A better you means a better universe.

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#86. 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.

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

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#88. The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they're no longer concerned for the future.

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

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#90. The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

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#91. 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.

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#92. Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.

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#93. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

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#94. 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.

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#95. 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.

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