Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me. — Jim Carrey

Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet. — Jim Carrey

Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close–up. Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased, so… It’s not a pleasant feeling! — Jim Carrey

Dry land is not a myth. I’ve seen it. Kevin Costner. Waterworld. I don’t know what the big fuss is about. I saw that movie nine times. It rules! — Jim Carrey

I don’t feel any pressure to be funny at all. I’m funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am. — Jim Carrey

What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it’s for a reason. There’s something I am trying to say. — Jim Carrey

I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin’ wealthy. — Jim Carrey

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That’s the thing. You can’t just visualize and go eat a sandwich. — Jim Carrey

It’s hard for anybody who’s been with me not to feel starved for affection when I’m making love to my ideas. Maybe it’s not meant for me to settle down and be married. — Jim Carrey

But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself. — Jim Carrey

Those times in life when you’re terrified are the mastery times. — Jim Carrey

I don’t think I’m ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things. — Jim Carrey

I always have been introspective, since I was a little kid, since I could remember, I was sitting in a closet trying to write out the meaning of the universe. That’s been my whole life. — Jim Carrey

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can’t commit to that, sorry! — Jim Carrey

The purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern. I dubbed it, ‘The church of freedom from concern,’ or ‘FFC. — Jim Carrey

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! — Jim Carrey

I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater. — Jim Carrey

My career has been in a weird kind of like low–flying under the radar–kind of place. I never made it on ‘Saturday Night Live’ where all my friends did. — Jim Carrey

I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean. — Jim Carrey

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

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. — Jim Carrey

I’m not in a recession. I’m doing very, very well. I’m doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass. — Jim Carrey

Comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn’t get a lot of respect. that’s the sacrifice you make to do it. — Jim Carrey

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. — Jim Carrey

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 on, performing. — Jim Carrey

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby. — Jim Carrey

There was a time when people said, ‘Jim, if you keep on making faces, your face will freeze like that.’ Now they just say, ‘Pay him!’ — Jim Carrey

When someone you love dies, you don’t lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming. — Jim Carrey

I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her. — Jim Carrey

I spent most of my time in my room staring at a mirror. I never knew I was supposed to socialize. I just spent hours making faces at myself, having a good time. — Jim Carrey

It’s exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day. — Jim Carrey