100+ Jim Carrey Quotes | InspiringQuotes.us

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

source: - "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

Topics: Soul, Body, Limits, Containing

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

source: - "Jim Carrey and Robert Zemeckis Launch Disney's a Christmas Carol Train Tour". Interview with B. Alan Orange, movieweb.com. May 21, 2009.

Topics: Believe, People, Realizing

Quotation Jim Carrey My soul is not contained within the limits of my Quotes

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

Topics: Success, Opportunity, Stay Positive

Quotation Jim Carrey Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart Quotes

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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Beautiful, Flower, Light, Blooming Flower, Love And Flower

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.

Topics: Regret, Believe, People

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

source: - "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Doing What You Love, Might, Chance, Memorable Graduation, Commencement

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

Topics: Ideas, Matter, Persons, Great Respect, Respect Life

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

Topics: Kids, Needs, Streets

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Topics: Funny, Laughter, Eye, Her Eyes, Lovers Eyes

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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Inspirational, Thinking, Answers, Metaphors Of Life, True Meaning Of Life

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.

Topics: 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

Topics: Father, Doing What You Love, Want, Commencement Speech, Convocation

[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.

Topics: Believe, Missing, Lucky, Rollercoaster, Missing Something

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. ;^

Topics: Running, Soul, Rifles, Massacres, Assault 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.

Topics: Comedian, Arrogant, Idiot, Abra

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.

source: - "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

Topics: Going Out, World, Realizing, Self Made

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.

Topics: Moving, People, Guy

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

Topics: 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."

Topics: 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.

Topics: Nice, Good Love, Thinking, Together Forever

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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Salary, Finals, Analysis

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Dream, Father, Dumb

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

Topics: People, World, Want

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Crowds, Scripts, Comedy

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Broken, World, Painful

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Waiting, Want, Sticks

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: Dream, Guy, Important, Positive Thoughts

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.

Topics: 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.

Topics: Thinking, Office, Relax

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

Topics: 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.

Topics: 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.'

Topics: Beautiful, Morning, Coffee, Funny Good Morning, Morning Coffee

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

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Graduation Speech, Currency, Valuable

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

source: - Twitter post from Oct 01, 2011

Topics: Fall, Heart, Gains

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.

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Beautiful, Heart, Two, Two Choices

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.

Topics: Decisions We Make, Choices, Path, Practicality, Commencement Speech

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

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Failing, What You Love

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

source: - "Carrey: 'Life Is Too Beautiful'". www.cbsnews.com. November 18, 2004.

Topics: Karma, Pain, Regret, You Will Regret, Live Without Regrets

Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Fire, Leap, Walks

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. Faith leaps over it.

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Believe, Fire, Have Faith

If we (Lauren and Jim) ever get married, we're just going to put helmets on, run into each other from a hundred yards, and smash together like rams

Topics: Running, Funny Marriage, Together

Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.

Topics: Compassion, Wealth, Currency

I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.

source: - "Jim Almighty". Interview, www.ign.com. May 22, 2003.

Topics: Thinking, Ideas, Feelings

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall.

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Real, War, Lying, Perception Of Others

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

source: - Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

Topics: Risk, Graduation Speech, Glory

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.

Topics: Life, Thank You, Stupid, Green Grass

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.

Topics: Life, Death, Insanity

I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.

Topics: Vicinity, Tolle

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich.

Topics: Make Me Feel Better, Visualization

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.

Topics: Consumed

Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.

Topics: Serious Things

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.

Topics: Christmas Time, Sick Person

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.

Topics: Creative People

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.

Topics: Leonardo

I’ve often said that I wish people could realize all their dreams and wealth and fame, so that they could see that it’s not where they’re gonna find their sense of completion. 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. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body, my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

Topics: Self Made

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point.

source: - "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

Topics: Thoughtfulness, Stupidest

I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.

Topics: Spiritual Beliefs, Caught In The Middle

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.

Topics: Playing It Safe

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence.

Topics: Purpose Of Art

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

Topics: Scientism

I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

Topics: Being Stupid

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

Topics: Starving Yourself, Chance And Risk, Risks And Taking Chances

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.

Topics: Freshman, Freshman Year

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.

source: - Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 11, 2014.

Topics: Special To Me

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.

Topics: Truman, Truman Show

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.

source: - "Jim Carrey on films, depression and love". Interview with Larry King, www.cnn.com. December 16, 2008.

Topics: Truman, Eternal Sunshine, Truman Show

I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.

source: - Source: movieweb.com

Topics: Scrooge

Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.

Topics: Turn The Other Cheek

One of my mission statements with all of my art has been to stop the world for people. I want to stop the worrying and stop the world.

source: - "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

Topics: Mission Statement

My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Topics: Mock, Forget The Pain

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.

source: - Interview with Devin Faracii, www.chud.com. December 20, 2005.

Topics: Crazy Man

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Topics: Looking In The Mirror

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm.

Topics: Early Bird, Truman Show

I've been on a quest for spiritual answers for a long time. The things I've learned about interconnectedness and non-duality and the feeling of tapping into your soul that goes beyond the edge of your skin is important to me. Once I learned that, I'm far less often trapped in my own little man problems. Me against the universe problems.

source: - "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, yahoo.com. September 24, 2013.

Topics: Tapping

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.

Topics: Aspens

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry!

source: - MoviesOnline Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. November 12th, 2017.

Topics: Veterinarian

You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!"

source: - "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

Topics: Bodily Functions

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.

source: - "Jim Carrey On His 'World Stopping' New Book". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, www.etonline.com. September 24, 2013.

Topics: Quitting Your Job

I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can't see my blessings.

Topics: My Blessing

There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair. I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. I had to get off at a certain point because I realized that, you know, everything's just OK.

Topics: Low Level, People With Depression, Prozac

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities!

Topics: Mortal Kombat, Louvre

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.

Topics: Caged Animal

You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.

source: - Press conference on 'The Number 23', collider.com. February 21, 2007.

Topics: Different Colors

My teacher in the seventh grade told me that if I didn't fool around during class, I could have 15 minutes at the end of the day to do a comedy routine. Instead of bugging everybody, I'd figure out my routine. And at the end of the day, I'd get to perform in front of my entire class. I thought it was really smart of her. It's amazing how important that was.

Topics: Really Smart, Seventh Grade

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

Topics: Chance And Risk, Risks And Taking Chances, Risk It

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.

Topics: Hindrance

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

Topics: Completion

Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough'

Topics: Projectors

The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.

source: - View London Interview, www.viewlondon.co.uk.

Topics: Unhappy People

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

Topics: Personal Hygiene

My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.

source: - "Jim Carrey Interview: Yes Man". Interview with Cole Haddon, www.mtv.com. December 18, 2008.

Topics: Peninsulas

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.

source: - Source: movies.about.com

Topics: Gems

Dry land is not a myth. I've seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don't know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules!

Topics: Dry Land

i'm a perfectionist, so i'm never satisfied with myself. i've always been psychotic about that kind of stuff--in a good way. i'm very disciplined. like the food and the whole thing, i'm always looking to "how can i eventually just turn into a ball of light and fly off the planet?". until that happens and God basically pull the blinds back, i will not be satisfied... if i found out that if i ate pine nuts for the next month i could see God, i'd be eating pine nuts.

Topics: Pine Nuts

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.

Topics: Janitor, Security Guards

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

Topics: Confused Love

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower!

Topics: Story Of My Life, Cauliflower, Green Eggs And Ham

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri.

Topics: Potpourri, Toxic Waste

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.

source: - "Carrey: 'I Threw Myself Down the Stairs'". www.digitalspy.com. December 30, 2009.

Topics: Conjuring

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?

Topics: Fifty Year Olds, Turning 50, 50th Birthday

I cannot be contained because I am the container.

source: - "Jim Carrey Delivers Emotional Commencement Speech, Receives Honorary Doctorate Degree". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.eonline.com. May 26, 2014.

Topics: Containers

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.

Topics: Someone You Like

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?'

source: - YouTube Channel "walbertcito"/"Jim Carrey - Unnatural Act (1991)", www.youtube.com. June 11, 2012.

Topics: Powerful Man

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

Topics: Truman Show

Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

source: - "This Much I Know". Interview with Tony Horkins, www.theguardian.com. October 19, 2008.

Topics: Real Emotion

I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.