131 Jim Carrey Quotes
I like you a looot
Ssssssssmokin'!
All-righty then!
God, why do you hate me?
Gee, let me think. Um, sure
I just want to be myself
Originality is really important
If you've got a talent, protect it
I have unpaid parking tickets
One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri

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Constantly talking isn't necessarily communicating
If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer
A lot of good love can happen in ten years
You never had a camera inside my head
I'm kicking my ass. Do you mind?
But, you know, you can't be a star at home
I must say, you are a gloomy-looking bunch
I love playing ego and insecurity combined
My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere
I am Bruce Almighty! My will be done!
I just figured she was a raging alcoholic!
What do you mean you don't bet? Wussy! Wussy!
That John Denver's full of shit man
When I started out, I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free
Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself
Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased
Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass
I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me
Yes, Satan? Oh, I'm sorry, I thought you were someone else
Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes
I'm looking for Ray Finkle...and a clean pair of shorts
Good day mate! Let's put another, shrimp on the barbi!
Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary
How do you make someone love you without changing free will?
I'm charming, but I dip into the Prozac now and then
I got robbed by a sweet old lady on a motorized cart!
Riddle me this. Riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?
Hate, hate, hate. Hate, hate, hate. Double Hate. LOATHE ENTIRELY
There is nothing like making love to somebody you give a shit about
You know what the trouble about real life is? There's no danger music
This country has helped define me and make my dreams come true
My report card always said, "Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students"
I don't think anybody is interesting until they've had the shit kicked out of them
My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian
I rarely drink coffee. I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me
Nice to meet you, God. Nice job on the Grand Canyon and good luck with the apocalypse
It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with
If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh
I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater
I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority
Good morning! And in case I don't see you: good afternoon, good evening and good night!
Valentine's Day is a holiday invented by greeting card companies to make people feel like crap
Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them
We're gonna die! We're gonna die! I'm gonna throw up, and then I'm gonna die! Mommy tell it to stop!
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
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself
We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation
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
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
Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Suess inspired me to try cauliflower
If you utter so much as one syllable, I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN AND GUT YOU LIKE A FISH! If you want to fax me, press the star key
I would like to take everybody in this entire audience out for milk and cookies. There are buses outside. Everybody follow me
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
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"
Second year in a row - what's going on here, man? ... I'm the establishment I once rejected. ... I'm the Tom Hanks of the Golden Globes
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
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go: Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it
Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting
If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression
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
I just want to be killer funny. You know kick ass piss in your pants run out of the theatre and rip you dick off and throw yourself into traffic funny!
New in the building? Oh. Do you like it so far? Well, that's because you have big jugs. I mean your boobs are huge. I mean I want to squeeze them
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
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
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!"
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
I enjoy his music, but he scares me, ... His lyrics are totally socially irresponsible. But I think if we just spend more time with our kids, we'll be OK
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
Well, I'm not really ready for a relationship, Lois, but thank you for asking. Hey, maybe I'll give you a call sometime. Your number's still 911? All righty then
You don't know what it's like spending all those years trapped behind a wall of politeness bound and gagged, a dark and silent world where nothing grows but your anger
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, "Is that a $20 million take?" That kind of thing, and being self-critical
New management came in and they cleaned everybody out - so we hit the skids. We lived in a van, so I kind of know what happens to people when this happens
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
Because I believe you will buy booze with it. I just want to get from my car to my office without being confronted by the decay of Western society. Plus, I'm cheap!
First I'd establish a motive. In this case, the killer saw the size of the bug's dick, and became insanely jealous. Then I'd lose thirty pounds, porking his wife
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
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
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
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
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
And they'll feast, feast, feast, feast. They'll eat their Who-Pudding and rare Who-Roast Beast. But there's something I just cannot stand in least... Oh no. I'M SPEAKING IN RHYME!
I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me. I was that weird Jim Boy, you know, "Stay away from him." Then I suddenly realized that all the shtick I pulled at home could also work at school. I recall the first day that I stood in front of the school and fell up the stairs. People started self-combusting with laughter. I went from "Jim's a geek" to "Jim really is a moron, but we like it!" From then on, there was no stopping me - I was relentless. Every class became The Jim Carrey Show. I was like a disease in the class. I remember being sent out of the room a lot. The hall became my domain
My first experience on stage started in second grade. I was in music class and we were practicing for the Christmas assembly. One day I started fooling around by mocking the musicians on a record. The teacher thought she'd embarrass me by making me get up and do what I was doing in front of the whole class. So I went up and did it. She laughed, and the whole class went nuts. My teacher asked me to do my routine for the Christmas assembly, and I did. That was the beginning of the end
Here it goes. I sped, I followed too closely, I ran a stop sign, I almost hit a Chevy, I sped some more, I failed to yield at a crosswalk, I changed lanes at an intersection, I changed lanes without signaling while running a red light and SPEEDING!
For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends
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
I'm afraid, I guess, that I won't be able to watch anymore. Everything I do comes from watching and observing, and I'm concerned that I won't be able to be the watcher because I'm the watched. I've already had so much success, I could quit now and say, "Thanks very much, you guys have been more than nice to me," but I really would like to keep working and, hopefully, growing and challenging myself. HIMSELF
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
I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her. 
My performing started out as a mixture of things. It's really not all angst and I-gotta-go-onstage-or-I'm-gonna-kill-somebody kind of thing. Some of it is the anger, but it was born from really, truly, just wanting to be special and to be noticed and wanting to make people laugh. It was really born from that, so it comes from a good place. It's just - the tools are your anger, the tools are your sadness, the tools are your joy, the tools are voices, faces - the tools are all those things
There's new territory, there's new places to go, new things to explore. Why stay back there? ... Maybe it will take three films to find another character that is really totally original, but I've got a lifetime, so why waste it just repeating myself
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"
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
I praticed 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
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. 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
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. 
The comedian's who inspired me are, like, Dick Van Dyke. Loved Dick Van Dyke. Jimmy Stewart. Well, he wasn't a comedian, but he was a character that I really, really liked. I learned how to say "fuck", by listening to Richard Pryor. No. But there's guys like that who opened doors to realms for me. Like Richard Pryor and guys like Sam Kinison. You watch them and then you go, well maybe your gotta give up a little more to, you know, push the buttons these days
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
With this one, when you get into more like your real thing, what the real stuff is underneath, it's almost like you're naked and you're saying "OK, this is me now, so if you reject this, it's my essence you don't like." So I think there is a lot of me in this character
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
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
What I have in common with the character in "Truman" is this incredible need to please people. 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
The pain is there for a reason. A lot of times when I was in those depressions, I also had the thing going through my head that this is what I've asked for. I've prayed to God that I would have depth as an artist and have things to say. I've said, No matter what, keep me sane but give me what I need
I'm not a huge remake fan but I loved the first movie, and I thought it was more relevant now than it was back then, because of all the Enron-type swindles. I thought it would be a great opportunity to take a shot at all the white-collar creeps and give people a bit of relief, because everyone's feeling they're part of a company these days. It's a good outlet for that frustration
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. The whole time I was filming The Cable Guy, I kept reminding myself that if a scene didn't work, the $20 million would bite me in the butt
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
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. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. You know?
When the first big paycheque with Dumb And Dumber hit, I went: "Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?" But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe
I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though

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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" 
The nerve of those Whos. Inviting me down there - and on such short notice. Even if I wanted to go my schedule wouldn't allow it. Four o'clock, wallow in self pity, 4:30, stare into the abyss, 5:00, solve world hunger, tell no one. 5:30, jazzercize. 6:30, dinner with me. I can't cancel that again. 7:00, wrestle with my self-loathing, I'm booked. Of course, if I bump the loathing to 9 I could still be done in time to lay in bed, stare at the ceiling and slip slowly into madness. But what would I wear?
That's what it's all about right? That's what it's always been about! Gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts, gifts! Do you know what happens to your gifts? They all come to me...in your garbage. Do you see what I'm saying here? IN YOUR GARBAGE! I could hang myself with all the bad Christmas neckties I found at the dump! I want golf clubs! I want diamonds! I want a pony so I can ride it twice, get bored, and send it away to make glue! Look, I don't wanna make waves here, but this WHOLE Christmas season is STUPID! STUPID! STUPID! There is however, one teeny, tiny, Christmas tradition that I find quite meaningful... Mistletoe. SO PUCKER UP AND KISS IT, WHOVILLE!