Jim Carrey Quotes

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

Risk being seen in all of your glory.

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.

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.

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

I’ve arrived at the place if I’m not taking a career risk, I’m not happy. If I’m scared, then I know I’m being challenged.

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 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.

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!’

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

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.

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.

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.

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.