Jim Carrey Quotes

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.

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

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.

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.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

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

I just wanna hang out. No big deal!

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

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

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

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.

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

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

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

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me.

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.

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

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

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.

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.

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.

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

I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.

I just want to be myself.

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

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.

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

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

I hope everybody could get rich and famous.

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

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.

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'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.

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.

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.

As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel important.

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.

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.

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.

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don't hear them yet.

The dating process is not normal for me.

The era of ‘yes’ has begun.

Don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's always doors opening. They keep opening.

It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.

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

When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.

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 want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

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.

Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.