Jim Carrey Quotes

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.

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've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

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.

I just want to be myself.

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

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

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.'

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 know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

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

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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

If you've got a talent, protect it.

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

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.'

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.