Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Carrey - Page 2

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.

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.

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

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.

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 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'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.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I have no limits! I cannot be contained because I'm the container.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, like my dad... How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out... The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is. Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

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. 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.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

To find real peace you have to let the armor go. 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.

I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice... It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, "What am I going to give up next?" Because I want to feel.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention.

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

I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me it means whatever you take out into the world is what you're going to draw out. like those days when you're all yang and no yin, and you're fighting with people inside, and you can't calm yourself down, and suddenly you're pulled over by the cops. everything goes wrong in the same day because you created it. so, if you get heaven within you, it'll be all around you. if hell is within you, it'll be around you. it's always created here first.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

A better you means a better universe.

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything.

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.