Famous quotes by Actors

"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, Actor

"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"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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"

Jim Carrey, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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!"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends"

Jim Carrey, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Actor

"Either you're the one erasing, or you're the one being erased"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

"A lot of good love can happen in ten years"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

"It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with"

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

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

Jim Carrey, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

"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, Actor

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