Top 180 Jim Carrey Quotes (2024 Update)
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51. “When I started out. I’d drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.”

— Jim Carrey

52. “That’s the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they’d be like, ‘Yeah, big deal. I’d eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you’re pulling down.’”

— Jim Carrey

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

— Jim Carrey

54. “I don’t think you can know God unless you’re passionate about him so you’re either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.”

— Jim Carrey

55. “Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.”

— Jim Carrey

56. “I’m not always looking for the laugh. I’m not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.”

— Jim Carrey

57. “I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter.”

— Jim Carrey

58. “I don’t hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you.”

— Jim Carrey

59. “Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.”

— Jim Carrey

60. “I would do anything to be anywhere in the vicinity of Eckhart Tolle.”

— Jim Carrey

61. “But I refuse to believe that I am a better actor than myself.”

— Jim Carrey

62. “Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world.”

— Jim Carrey

63. “I hope everybody could get rich and famous...”

— Jim Carrey

64. “The era of ‘yes’ has begun.”

— Jim Carrey

65. “I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

— Jim Carrey

66. “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

67. “What’s yours? How will you serve the world? What do they need that your talent can provide? That’s all you have to figure out.”

— Jim Carrey

68. “My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I’ve been on. I guess some people would say I’m obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It’s just enjoyable. I don’t really have crazy obsessions about things.”

— Jim Carrey

69. “I don’t believe in this fairy tale of staying together for ever. Ten years with somebody is enough. In ten years, you can give a lot of love.”

— Jim Carrey

70. “My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him.”

— Jim Carrey

71. “I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I’m a yes man.”

— Jim Carrey

72. “I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they’re grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are.”

— Jim Carrey

73. “Like most Catholic boys, I wanted to be Jesus Christ. I could never get the turn-the-other-cheek thing down, though.”

— Jim Carrey

74. “My father used to brag that I wasn’t a ham, I was the whole pig.”

— Jim Carrey

75. “It’s always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it’s certainly not the fame because it’s a pain in the ass, but it’s really the person in the seat you think about when you sit in the rooms and write, and you do all the things you have to do.”

— Jim Carrey

76. “You know the trouble with real life? There’s no danger music.”

— Jim Carrey

77. “My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.”

— Jim Carrey

78. “150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.”

— Jim Carrey

79. “Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don’t do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”

— Jim Carrey

80. “I feel that we’re all lighthouses, and my job is to shine my light as brightly as I can to the darkness.”

— Jim Carrey

81. “Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid.”

— Jim Carrey

82. “It’s time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!”

— Jim Carrey

83. “Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.”

— Jim Carrey

84. “I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.”

— Jim Carrey

85. “One man’s toxic waste is another man’s potpourri.”

— Jim Carrey

86. “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

87. “Just because I rock doesn’t mean I am made of stone.”

— Jim Carrey

88. “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.”

— Jim Carrey

89. “Don’t you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me!”

— Jim Carrey

90. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

91. “A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”

— Jim Carrey

92. “I just wanna hang out. No big deal!”

— Jim Carrey

93. “Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show.”

— Jim Carrey

94. “I come from the philosophy of: “Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what.” Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: “I wouldn’t be here if it weren’t for that so called failure.””

— Jim Carrey

95. “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

96. “Psychologically, it’s what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.”

— Jim Carrey

97. “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

98. “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

99. “Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.”

— Jim Carrey

100. “My father could have been a great comedian but he didn’t believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe jog as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father. Not the least of which was that: You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

— Jim Carrey