Quotes By Jim Carrey

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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

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.

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 impression.

You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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 haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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.

Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

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

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

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

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

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

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.

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

I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

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.

There was a time when people said, 'Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.' Now they just say, 'Pay him!'

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.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

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.

The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.

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