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Jim Carrey
Canadian
Comedian
Born:
Jan 17
,
1962
Always
Life
Me
Myself
People
You
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If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.
Jim Carrey
You
Regret
Looking
Pain
Back
Uncertainty
Looking Forward
Either
Moment
Forward
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
Jim Carrey
Life
You
Opportunities
Stay
Take
Taking
Opens
Up
Afraid
Either
Them
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey
Wisdom
Death
Dreams
You
Surrender
Better
Starving
Give
Risk
Left
Up
Then
Your
Your Dreams
I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'
Jim Carrey
Beautiful
Good
Morning
You
Garden
Remember
Wake Up
Coffee
Lose
Sit
Out
Some
Mornings
Look
Because
How
Go
Wake
Up
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.
Jim Carrey
You
Learning
Desperation
Desperate
Think
Some
Point
Period
Learn
Without
Human
Human Beings
Anything
Interesting
Ingredient
Creating
Beings
Necessary
My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
Jim Carrey
Life
Focus
Pain
Laugh
Reduce
Mock
Forget
I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.
Jim Carrey
Life
Beautiful
Alcohol
Too
About
Very
Serious
I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.
Jim Carrey
Love
Somebody
Possible
Know
Forever
Just
Want
To Love
Really
Ever
Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.
Jim Carrey
Life
Good
Old
Poverty
Good Old Days
Obscurity
Exciting
Days
Trade
Ordeal
Old Days
Albeit
I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.
Jim Carrey
Myself
Good
You
Own
Believe
Universe
Philosophy
Trying
Just
Create
Really
Your
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.
Jim Carrey
Alone
Time
Day
Late
Stay
Only
Tend
Only Time
Performing
Because
Partying
Up
People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Jim Carrey
People
Desperation
Think
Learn
Without
Motivation
Human
Human Beings
Anything
Beings
Need
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.
Jim Carrey
Christmas
Alone
Time
People
Remember
Mother
Daughter
Pain
Sick
Took
Attention
Like
She
Always
How
Leave
Pills
Lot
Person
Getting
Just
Used
Many
Professional
Her
Originality is really important.
Jim Carrey
Important
Really
Originality
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.
Jim Carrey
People
Care
Long
Enjoy
Think
Van
Van Gogh
Would
Call
Am
dont Care
Gogh
Who
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.
Jim Carrey
Try
Girl
Kiss
Seen
Before
Kick
Out
Would
Something
Kissed
Never
Catch
Like
She
Audience
Been
Hits
Maybe
Wanna
Legs
Might
Gonna
Then
Ground
Her
Right
I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing.
Jim Carrey
Me
Psychic
Everything
Running
Tried
Colors
Had
Town
Pieces
Around
Aura
Prozac
Did
Done
Ribbon
Who
Therapy
Fill
Thing
Buying
I love playing ego and insecurity combined.
Jim Carrey
Love
Ego
Insecurity
Combined
Playing
I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.
Jim Carrey
Saying
Me
Crazy
Mother
Mirror
Drive
Devil
Looking
Would
Scare
See
Faces
More
She
Course
Making
Going
Used
Fascinated
Even
Kept
Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
Jim Carrey
Fans
Recognition
Out
Picked
Since
Get
Them
Certain
Ever
Started
I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.
Jim Carrey
Life
Work
Relationship
Marriage
Impossible
My Life
Other
Consider
Wrapped
Divorce
Because
Up
Ended
Often
Holly
Suffered
Things
It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.
Jim Carrey
Me
You
Long
OK
Recognition
Insofar
Long Process
Along
Leap
Because
Always
Came
Been
Truman
Goes
Process
Show
Career
Appreciate
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
Jim Carrey
Me
Will
Made
Always
Proud
Am
Upbringing
Canada
Canadian
Person
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
You
Learning
Desperation
Desperate
Some
Point
Period
Anything
Interesting
Ingredient
Creating
Necessary
The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.
Jim Carrey
Me
You
Money
Thinking
Danger
Kind
Someone
Take
Self-Critical
Like
Hindrance
Because
Being
Thing
Million
Start
I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.
Jim Carrey
Me
Experience
Money
Conservative
Somebody
Go Away
Wild
Had
Investments
Like
Know
Safe
Houses
Go
Been
Very
Blow
Might
Away
Things
Ton
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