I don’t think the public is dying to see me necessarily be funny all the time.
I’ve had a very good career and I’m grateful that the public has had some level of acceptance and appreciation of my work.
I love New York. I was sad, depressed and incredibly moved by our fellow countrymen and what they’ve done. I wanted to give people a chance to see something funny, have a distraction.
Maybe forced retirement isn’t necessary after all.
As a kid I had dreams about being successful, thinking it would be cool. Then, when I was in my 20s, I really thought I had it much more figured out than I do now.
Nobody makes me bleed my own blood. Nobody!
It’s what I wanted to do with my life. Not necessarily just direct Jim Carrey movies, but to direct and act and write and create and along the way discover what it is that I’m about.
What the hell am I doing with my life?
Sometimes I wondered whether I hadn’t let my career get confined to one direction, but lately I’ve decided to accept the fact that I have this opportunity to be successful doing comedies.
I’m not an expert on the Malaysian sense of humor.
There’s always an element of fear that you need to work a lot until people get sick and tired of you or finally figure out that you’re a fraud after all!
Jim Carrey, a comic genius, has a harder time overcoming the public’s desire for him to be funny simply because he’s so good at it.
I don’t even want to think of myself as an actor because it’s such an insecure place to go.
You have to stay in character in between takes.
I actually started working on Madagascar before my daughter was born.
When you have kids you want to be able to go to movies and take the family too, and actually all enjoy it together. I don’t think there are that many great, live action family movies that everybody can enjoy.
I think you never want to have to go into the scene having to improvise; you want to make sure its working on the page. But I do like to have the ability to try stuff just in the moment, to give it some sort of spontaneity.
I love history. I’m very interested by it and I think it’s great to have a movie that brings it alive in a way. It’s sort of that romanticized version of it.
I’d love to travel more. I really look forward to traveling with my kids. I’m just waiting for them to want to travel with me.
I know that I’m better as an actor when I’m working with a good actor. I think anytime you’re working with a better actor, it makes you a better actor.
It’s great to work with the people who make you laugh and who are funnier than I am.