Top 100 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #4777
#2. My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #15496
#3. 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

Carrey Quotes #40344
#4. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #40625
#5. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #42987
#6. 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

Carrey Quotes #46441
#7. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #49353
#8. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #50382
#9. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #58341
#10. 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

Carrey Quotes #64998
#11. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #69193
#12. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #69554
#13. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #76713
#14. Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.

Christine Baranski

Carrey Quotes #91593
#15. I don't remember yesterday.I pretty much live in the moment.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #96364
#16. Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #101111
#17. The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #101740
#18. For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #106343
#19. 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

Carrey Quotes #127172
#20. 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!

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #131212
#21. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #133113
#22. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #134416
#23. 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

Carrey Quotes #136155
#24. I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #141925
#25. When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #146455
#26. 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

Carrey Quotes #146796
#27. 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

Carrey Quotes #153836
#28. Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #189066
#29. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #198023
#30. 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

Carrey Quotes #203976
#31. It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #208520
#32. 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

Carrey Quotes #223336
#33. I would like to do comedy. I can be a bit of a Jim Carrey. I was always the class clown.

Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Carrey Quotes #243789
#34. 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

Carrey Quotes #245366
#35. 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

Carrey Quotes #245948
#36. 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?

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #247642
#37. 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

Carrey Quotes #252795
#38. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #254231
#39. 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

Carrey Quotes #256104
#40. 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

Carrey Quotes #259796
#41. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #274107
#42. 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

Carrey Quotes #279484
#43. I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #296438
#44. 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

Carrey Quotes #308896
#45. Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #309582
#46. Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #315739
#47. 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

Carrey Quotes #319863
#48. 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

Carrey Quotes #333267
#49. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #337199
#50. Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic ... is counterproductive!

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #349912
#51. 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

Carrey Quotes #354283
#52. 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

Carrey Quotes #373762
#53. 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

Carrey Quotes #376935
#54. A better you means a better universe.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #378824
#55. 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

Carrey Quotes #383194
#56. 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

Carrey Quotes #383386
#57. Hi I'm B-Rok of the Backstreet Boys, Jim Carrey wannabe.

Brian Littrell

Carrey Quotes #391013
#58. There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #397121
#59. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #414249
#60. My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #415047
#61. The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #450776
#62. 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

Carrey Quotes #453055
#63. Behind every great man there is a woman rolling her eyes.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #453566
#64. I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #464938
#65. 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

Carrey Quotes #475611
#66. 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

Carrey Quotes #489184
#67. Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #490069
#68. 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

Carrey Quotes #494136
#69. 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

Carrey Quotes #497879
#70. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #508072
#71. I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.

Laurie Holden

Carrey Quotes #512282
#72. I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.

Sebastian Stan

Carrey Quotes #515226
#73. But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #517188
#74. 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

Carrey Quotes #525899
#75. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #541705
#76. I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #542749
#77. 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

Carrey Quotes #544356
#78. I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #558405
#79. 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

Carrey Quotes #568726
#80. I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #571295
#81. 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

Carrey Quotes #572885
#82. 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

Carrey Quotes #580862
#83. 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

Carrey Quotes #598091
#84. 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

Carrey Quotes #603224
#85. If you work with Jim Carrey, you're working with the best.

Peter Farrelly

Carrey Quotes #607435
#86. I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #612277
#87. 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

Carrey Quotes #640064
#88. 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

Carrey Quotes #656274
#89. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality,

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #667669
#90. Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #667721
#91. It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #671869
#92. It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.

Steve Buscemi

Carrey Quotes #677949
#93. 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

Carrey Quotes #685106
#94. Originality is really important.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #691735
#95. I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #693461
#96. Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #696413
#97. 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.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #701321
#98. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

Jim Carrey

Carrey Quotes #716391
#99. 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

Carrey Quotes #719957
#100. 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

Carrey Quotes #732285

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