The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.

— Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes

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

— Jim Carrey

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I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.

— Jim Carrey

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it’s always been the same goal: To stop the world for people.

— Jim Carrey

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

— Jim Carrey

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

— Jim Carrey

Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.

— Jim Carrey

I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.

— Jim Carrey

My father could have been a great comedian but he didn’t believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe jog as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. 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

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

True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.

— Jim Carrey

I used to be a guy who was experiencing the Universe, but now I feel like the Universe experiencing a guy.

— Jim Carrey

If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.

— Jim Carrey

Anyone can rejigger an atom bomb,” said Hopkins. “But to possess the minds of millions? To make them your willing zombies across a whole decade? That’s real magic.

— Jim Carrey

The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.

— Jim Carrey

Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful?

— Jim Carrey

Might they one day reconstruct the ruins of the mind as well as those of the body?

— Jim Carrey

Human things have long since jumped the shark.

— Jim Carrey

I believe depression is legitimate. But I also believe that if you don’t exercise, eat nutritious food, get sunlight, get enough sleep, consume positive material, surround yourself with support, then you aren’t giving yourself a fighting chance.

— Jim Carrey

Since I’ve been spending my time in nature with animals, I found out that we are the wild savages, and they are the ones who are actually civilized.

— Jim Carrey

We don’t matter. There’s the good news.

— Jim Carrey

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