Jim Carrey Quotes

 

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

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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.
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Originality is really important.
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I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.
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Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.
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A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
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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.
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Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
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I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me.
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I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.
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I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.
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It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.
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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
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There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'
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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.'
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Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!
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I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.
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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.
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I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'
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If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression.
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Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.
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My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
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My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
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We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
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