Jim Carrey Quotes (76 Quotes)

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer

Not that you'd think so, based on the film's first 10 minutes or so. Although our introduction to the title character's home environment is wincingly, achingly hilarious - this is the sort of guy who, at 40, probably has a lifetime pass to San Diego's annual Comic Con - the effect of set decorator K.C. Fox's carefully assembled virgin's pad ... Me, Myself Irene.

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.

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

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

I just want to be myself.

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

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.

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.

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.

New management came in and they cleaned everybody out so we hit the skids. We lived in a van, so I kind of know what happens to people when this happens.

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'

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

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.

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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

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.

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.

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.

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!

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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

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

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