Jim Carrey

“People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.”

“What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”

“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”

“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.”

“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.”

“I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.”

“I just want to be myself.”

“My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.”

“It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.”

“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.”

“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.”

“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.”

“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.”

“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 feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.”

“אני נהנה מחיי. חלק התהילה הוציא אותי מדעתי לזמן קצר, ויש בהחלט מקרים שבהם זה לא כל כך נפלא להיות מיוחד וידוע על ידי כולם – אתה יודע, כשאתה לובש את הדבר הלא נכון, או סתם במקום פגיע. אבל טוב לי עם החיים שלי עכשיו.”

“אני מרגיש שכולנו מגדלורים, והתפקיד שלי הוא להאיר את האור שלי בצורה בהירה.”

“אם היה ריטלין כשהייתי ילד, לא הייתי כאן עכשיו.”

“לא הייתי פרוע עם הכסף שלי, כמו שהיה מישהו כמוני. הייתי מאוד זהיר ומאד שמרני עם השקעות. אני לא מלא בכסף. אין לי המון בתים. אני יודע שדברים יכולים להיעלם. כבר חוויתי את החוויה הזו.”

“אני נוטה להישאר ער מאוחר לא בגלל שאני חוגג, אלא בגלל שזה הזמן היחיד ביום בו אני לבד ולא צריך להופיע.”