Jim Carrey Quotes

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.

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

Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.

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.

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.

I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

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

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!

When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people

Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.

I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.

I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.

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.

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.

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.

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.'

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

Those times in life when you're terrified are the mastery times.

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

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.

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

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!

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.

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.

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

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.

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.

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.

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.

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!

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.

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We're just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

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.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

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 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 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.