Sometimes you have to divorce yourself from what other people want from you. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian,… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
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… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,'… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves. — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
As far as I'm concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they're people who don't feel… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess. — Jim Carrey Copy Share
I don't believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
“I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
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.… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
It's our intention. Our intention is everything. Nothing happens on this planet without it. Not one single thing has ever been accomplished without intention. — Jim Carrey Copy Share
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… — Jim Carrey Copy Share
