Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Acting, Actors
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
Topics: Audiences
I’ve always believed in magic. When I wasn’t doing anything in this town, I’d go up every night, sit on Mulholland Drive, look out at the city, stretch out my arms, and say, “Everybody wants to work with me. I’m a really good actor. I have all kinds of great movie offers”. I’d just repeat these things over and over, literally convincing myself that I had a couple movies lined up. I’d drive down that hill, ready to take the world on, going, “Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet”. It was like total affirmations, antidotes to the stuff that stems from my family background.
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Act, Work, Kind, Good, Family, Body, Doing, Believe, Great
Heaven is on the other side of that feeling you get when you’re sitting on the couch and you get up and make a triple-decker sandwich. It’s on the other side of that, when you don’t make the sandwich. It’s about sacrifice…. It’s about giving up the things that basically keep you from feeling. That’s what I believe, anyway. I’m always asking, “What am I going to give up next?” Because I want to feel.
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Self-Control
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Focus
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
I’m very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
—Jim Carrey
I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it’s not the answer.
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Life, Living Well
If I’m not back in five minutes… just wait longer!
—Jim Carrey
Topics: Patience
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