Small: Creative people dont behave very well generally. If youre looking for examples of good relationships in show b
Jim Carrey
"Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: But, you know, you cant be a star at home
Jim Carrey
"But, you know, you can't be a star at home"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Before I do anything, I think, well what hasnt been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly an
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: A lot of good love can happen in ten years
Jim Carrey
"A lot of good love can happen in ten years"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth.
Jim Carrey
"You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me
Jim Carrey
"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: When the first big paycheque with Dumb And Dumber hit, I went: Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performan
Jim Carrey
"When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: What I have in common with the character in Truman is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I wan
Jim Carrey
"What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each
Jim Carrey
"We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: There was a time when people said, Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that. Now they
Jim Carrey
"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!'"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, Is that a 20 mi
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Thats the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have
Jim Carrey
"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.'"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Some nights it was a melee, literally, where Id be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing.
Jim Carrey
"Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Morgan Freeman is so class. Hes so cool. Hes so scary
Jim Carrey
"Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe th
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Maybe other people will try to limit me but I dont limit myself
Jim Carrey
"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them
Jim Carrey
"Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldnt trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscuri
Jim Carrey
"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Its nice to finally get scripts offered to me that arent the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with
Jim Carrey
"It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Its hard for anybody whos been with me not to feel starved for affection when Im making love to my ideas.
Jim Carrey
"It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: It was such a leap in my career when Truman Show came along. Its always been a long process for me insofar as
Jim Carrey
"It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, whats left?
Jim Carrey
"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: If youve got a talent, protect it
Jim Carrey
"If you've got a talent, protect it"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, Remember how
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.'"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, Id have a hairy conniption. Id just go c
Jim Carrey
"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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if Im gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her l
Jim Carrey
"I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I think I could go away tomorrow. Ive already accomplished something. Its such a selfish business that sometim
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I tend to stay up late, not because Im partying but because its the only time of the day when Im alone and don
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods w
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I really want to love somebody. I do. I just dont know if its possible forever and ever
Jim Carrey
"I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. Im just trying to create a good one for
Jim Carrey
"I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that
Jim Carrey
"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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little
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"
Jim Carrey, Comedian
Small: Life is something that happens to you while youre making other plans
"Life is something that happens to you while you're making other plans"
Margaret Millar, Writer
Small: Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat
"Sometimes a role might be difficult on my throat"
Tara Strong, Actress
Small: People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumpt
"People today sometimes get uncomfortable with empirical claims that seem to clash with their political assumptions, often because they haven't given much thought to the connections"
Steven Pinker, Scientist
Small: I dont consider myself to be that radical a thinker
"I don't consider myself to be that radical a thinker"
Steven Pinker, Scientist
Small: Your home should be your home. People shouldnt be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you w
"Your home should be your home. People shouldn't be allowed to use whatever crazy lenses they use to catch you waking up in the morning"
Sarah Chalke, Actress
Small: So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one
"So the first season about halfway through he just sort of put us together and then broke us up all within one episode. One of the ideas is to have us do that once a year - to have everything blow up in our faces and not work out"
Sarah Chalke, Actress
Small: It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with th
"It was really cool going to Sea World. We had an amazing time. They were amazing to us. We got to swim with the dolphins, and it was really special"
Sarah Chalke, Actress
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