Top 269 Quotes & Sayings by Jim Carrey - Page 4

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

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.

Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.

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.

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

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.

Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.

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.

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.

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone.

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 just wanna hang out. No big deal!

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

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.

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

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.

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

The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.

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.

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

My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.

I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F.F.C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.

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

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.

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

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

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

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

The era of ‘yes’ has begun.

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

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.

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked for me. and it didn't work for other people i know to get a so-called safe job, because there's no such thing anymore. the only thing that stays constant is the idea that people have to escape.

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.

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

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

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

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

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

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

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

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!

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

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

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.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

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.

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.

The dating process is not normal for me.

The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write.

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

All i want to make sure of is that she's doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that's what they should be doing-the thing they're dying to do all the time.

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.

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.

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

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!

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.