Jim Quotes

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

Drinking is not a spectator sport.

In my opinion, people that go against the election are going against America.

Pause before you get home and prepare your heart. A peaceful heart leads to a peaceful atmosphere.

Nobody can be bad at everything. There’s no such thing as a perfect screwup.

I don't have a muse. I have a mortgage.

Somewhere out there was a village I'd deprived of it's idiot.

Night wasn't so much falling as sharpening its claws.

A little humiliation and ego deflation, now and then, is good for apprentices. Mine sighed miserably.

And thrice do I say to thee...bite me.

Honey, I liked the Harry Potter movies, too, but that doesn’t mean I ran out and got a Dark Mark tattooed onto my left forearm like you did.

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.

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?'