List of Jim Carrey Quotes

Comedy Started Out As My Hobby And Then It Became My Profession. It's Like Being On Call All The Time, Like Having A Built-in Beeper. You Can't Just Leave The Office And Relax Because You Never Know When You'll Think Of Something Funny.

One Of My Mission Statements With All Of My Art Has Been To Stop The World For People. I Want To Stop The Worrying And Stop The World.

Magicians Are Definitely More Arrogant. They're Kind Of Like "abra Kadabra, You're An Idiot," They Don't Let You In On The Joke. Comedians, You're Always In On The Joke Unless It's Andy Kaufman.

I Think There Are Beautiful Moments. These Days Everybody Expects That Fairy Tale , That You're Going To Be Together Forever With Somebody And I Don't Really Subscribe To That. I'd Love That To Happen If That Happened, But 10 Years Is Enough. 10 Years Is A Good Thing With Somebody, I Think. It's A Nice Thing. A Lot Of Good Love Can Happen In 10 Years.

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.

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.

The Highs And Lows Of Show Business Is A Rollercoaster For Sure. There's So Many Highs, There's Just Moments Of Your Life Where You Go, "wow I Can't Believe How Insanely Lucky I Am," And Then You Can Turn Around And The Next Moment Feel So Completely Caught Up In Your Own Wanting, And Desiring, And Needing And Feel Like Somehow You're Missing Something. It's Just Higher The High, The Lower The Low.

I Expected That Most Of My Career Would Be In Dramatic Acting. My Hero Was James Dean.

I Just Love To Skate. When I Put A Skate On The Ice, I'm Free From The World, And I Have No Problems At All. I Am A Bird!

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!

You Can Be Zany And Funny Or You Can Do Something That Really Has Some Depth To It And Serious, So There's Many Different Colors To Paint With. I Would Hate To Get Trapped In One Little Thing. I Always Feel Like Funny Is An Appendage, But It Is Not My Whole Body.

I Really Have Always Thought Of Myself As Somebody Who Lives In The Middle Of The Wheel And Is Able To Go To The Extreme, To The Outside Of The Wheel In Any Direction. The Best Case Scenario For Me Is To Be Able To Be Centered And Then Go Out.