Quotes from Jim Carrey

I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do.

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.

I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

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.

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

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

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.

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

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.'

I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.

The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.

I hope everybody could get rich and famous.

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well try what you do want.

I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged.

If you've got a talent, protect it.