Jim Carrey quotes

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.
-- Jim Carrey

#Soul #Body #Limits

I don't believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.
-- Jim Carrey

#Believe #People #Realizing

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
-- Jim Carrey

#Success #Opportunity #Stay Positive

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.
-- Jim Carrey

#Art #People #Feel Good

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

#Beautiful #Flower #Light

I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.
-- Jim Carrey

#Regret #Believe #People

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

#Doing What You Love #Might #Chance

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.
-- Jim Carrey

#Ideas #Matter #Persons

It’s Better to Fail at What You Love Than Fail at What You Don’t.
-- Jim Carrey

#Failing

When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.
-- Jim Carrey

#Kids #Needs #Streets

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
-- Jim Carrey

#Funny #Laughter #Eye

The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.
-- Jim Carrey

#Play #Way #Just Being

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

#Inspirational #Thinking #Answers

I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.
-- Jim Carrey

#Thinking #Vegas #Space

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love
-- Jim Carrey

#Father #Doing What You Love #Want

[The highs and lows of show business is] a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.
-- Jim Carrey

#Believe #Missing #Lucky

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^
-- Jim Carrey

#Running #Soul #Rifles

Magicians are definitely more arrogant. They're kind of like "Abra Kadabra, you're an idiot," they don't let you in on the joke. Comedians, you're always in on the joke unless it's Andy Kaufman.
-- Jim Carrey

#Comedian #Arrogant #Idiot

Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself.
-- Jim Carrey

#Going Out #World #Realizing

I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.
-- Jim Carrey

#Moving #People #Guy

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

#Funny #Fans #Recognition

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."
-- Jim Carrey

#Regret #Philosophy #Lines

Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.
-- Jim Carrey

#Nice #Good Love #Thinking

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time.
-- Jim Carrey

#Mirrors #Rooms #Faces

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.
-- Jim Carrey

#Salary #Finals #Analysis

Take a chance on faith. Not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire and Faith leaps over it.
-- Jim Carrey

#Believe #Fire #Chance

Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.
-- Jim Carrey

#Acting #World #Divine

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
-- Jim Carrey

#Dream #Father #Dumb

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

#People #World #Want

150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
-- Jim Carrey

#Fall #Years #Vaccines

I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts - they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.
-- Jim Carrey

#Crowds #Scripts #Comedy

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

#Motivational #Thinking #People

The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.
-- Jim Carrey

#Broken #World #Painful

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

#Heart #Turns

I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally,you have to wait to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.
-- Jim Carrey

#Waiting #Want #Sticks

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much!
-- Jim Carrey

#Player

I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.
-- Jim Carrey

#Dream #Guy #Important

I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. 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

#Thinking #Creating #Interesting

Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.
-- Jim Carrey

#Thinking #Office #Relax

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

#Beautiful #Funny Sarcastic #Alcohol

Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you'll go crazy - "You'll go insane!" But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It's a goal.
-- Jim Carrey

#Crazy #People #Goal

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.'
-- Jim Carrey

#Beautiful #Morning #Coffee