Quotes by Jim Carrey

"People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation."

"My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian."

"If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret."

"If you've got a talent, protect 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."

"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'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful."

"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."

"My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh."

"Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself."

"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 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."

"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."

"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me."

"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 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 really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever."

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years."

"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."

"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.'"

"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."

"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."

"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."

"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 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."

"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."

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

"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.'"

"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"

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

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

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Originality is really important."