3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey One thing I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey I haven’t been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I’ve been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don’t blow money. I don’t have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I’ve already had that experience.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It’s just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she’s the daughter of alcoholics who’d leave her alone at Christmas time.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey I got a lot of support from my parents. That’s the one thing I always appreciated. They didn’t tell me I was being stupid they told me I was being funny.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.’
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, ‘Is that a $20 million take?’ That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
3 December 2020 Jim Carrey 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.
