25 Beautiful Quotes of Jim Carrey

1. For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.
2. 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.
3. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.'
7. 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!
8. 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.
9. I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
10. I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
11. I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
12. Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
13. But, you know, you can't be a star at home.
14. I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
15. I just want to be myself.
16. 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.
17. Originality is really important.
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
24. My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
25. 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.