Quotes from Jim Carrey

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby.

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.

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

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.

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.

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

I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing.

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny.

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming.

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart

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.

We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.

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.

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.

Every character is a baby. You can't choose between them. If you can, you didn't do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.

The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'

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

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.