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Jim Carrey says creative people often act oddly and that comedians sometimes treat insanity as a goal. He believes that an escape from pain is always present, even if we don’t choose it. He also explains that his art tries to make people feel good, or feel bad on purpose, to send a message.

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Sometimes you have to divorce yourself from what other people want from you.

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The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

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People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

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I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.

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One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop…

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I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but…

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I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting…

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I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me…

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I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but…

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The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, 'The church of freedom from concern,'…

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I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump…

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Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid…

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I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying…

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I just may laugh at different things than most people. I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.…

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I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to…

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The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is…

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My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just…

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I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the…

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My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with…

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but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked…

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There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level…

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I discovered a new thing in the Lord's Prayer that kind of hit me. "on earth as it is heaven" to me…

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I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that…

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When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going…

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It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at…

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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…

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150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.

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Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian,…

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I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's…

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I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a…

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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…

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What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them…

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Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would…

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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…

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I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.

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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…

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The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern, like my dad... How will you serve the world?…

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When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will…

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Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the…

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I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

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…

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much!

Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.

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…

“I practiced making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was…

Hope walks through the fire and faith leaps over it.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

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…

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.…

Come back here so that I may brain thee!

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.

You know what the trouble about real life is? Theres no danger music.

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…