Quotes from Jim Carrey

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it's not where you're going to find your sense of completion.

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen.

Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.

I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.

My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me.

I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!

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

A better you means a better universe.

The dating process is not normal for me.

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me.

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

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.

If you give up on your dreams, what's left?