Jim Carrey Quotes - Page 6

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.

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

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

Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here, somewhere - real close-up. I really couldn't have done it if I hadn't been through a lot one way or another. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so it's not a pleasant feeling!

Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.

I hope everybody could get rich and famous.

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.

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.'

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

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.

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

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

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.