Top 100 Carrey's Quotes
#1. 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
#2. 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
#3. 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.
Jim Carrey
#4. 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.
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#5. I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
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#6. 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.
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#7. My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
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#8. It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
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#9. 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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#10. 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.
Jim Carrey
#11. Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?
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#12. Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
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#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. Don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's always doors opening. They keep opening.
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#16. 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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#17. I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.
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#18. It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!
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#19. I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
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#20. 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.
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#21. 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.
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#22. 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
#23. 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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#24. 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
#25. It's great working with Steve Carell and Jim Carrey. Those guys are really funny.
Steve Buscemi
#26. 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.
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#27. 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.
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#28. 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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#29. 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.
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#30. My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
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#31. 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.
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#32. 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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#33. I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
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#34. What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.
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#35. 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.
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#36. 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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#37. 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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#38. Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
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#39. 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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#40. 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.
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#41. 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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#42. One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.
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#43. Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
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#44. 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
#45. I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.
Jim Carrey
#46. 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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#47. 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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#48. What's yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That's all you have to figure out.
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#49. You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.
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#50. It's good Xerox is known for its copying machines, and it's good Jim Carrey is known for comedy.
Steve Guttenberg
#51. 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.
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#52. 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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#53. 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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#54. 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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#55. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.
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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. 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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#58. 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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#59. For the most sensitive among us, the noise can be too much.
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#60. The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.
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#61. Life doesn't happen to you, it happens for you.
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#62. I don't remember yesterday.I pretty much live in the moment.
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#63. Jim Carrey is a consummate actor and professional. He comes on set, knows his lines and knows his moves.
Christine Baranski
#64. 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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#65. When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.
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#66. 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
#67. 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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#68. Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart
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#69. 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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#70. 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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#71. 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.
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#72. 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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#73. 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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#74. 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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#75. My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
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#76. 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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#77. 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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#78. I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.
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#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.
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#80. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
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#81. I was obsessed with Jim Carrey growing up. It's why I wanted to become an actor.
Sebastian Stan
#82. I've worked with Frank [Darabont] on two collaborations, The Majestic with Jim Carrey and Stephen King's The Mist.
Laurie Holden
#83. 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
#84. The inner child runs rampant. They're just smaller, that's all.
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#85. There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.
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#86. It's Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don't.
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#87. 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
#88. Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
Jim Carrey
#89. 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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#90. 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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#91. 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
#92. 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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#94. 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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#95. 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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#96. 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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#97. 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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#98. Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.
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#99. 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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#100. 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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