Top 180 Jim Carrey Quotes (2025 Update)
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101. “Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It’s the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.”

— Jim Carrey

102. “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

103. “I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.”

— Jim Carrey

104. “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

105. “True religion has, at its core: Love, Peace, Mercy, Justice and Freedom. If any of these elements is not fully present in a religion, the religion has been compromised.”

— Jim Carrey

106. “I hope I’ll never be is drunk with my own power.”

— Jim Carrey

107. “The combination of what’s written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.”

— Jim Carrey

108. “I’m always trying to complicate things. For some reason I’ll go, “Well, maybe I can get that in,” and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.”

— Jim Carrey

109. “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!”

— Jim Carrey

110. “Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own, When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that.”

— Jim Carrey

111. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

112. “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

113. “Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

— Jim Carrey

114. “I enjoy my life. The fame part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it’s not so great to be special and known by everybody – you know, when you’re wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I’m good with my life now.”

— Jim Carrey

115. “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

116. “I don’t believe in bad people. I believe that people, somewhere inside, have the potential to realize themselves.”

— Jim Carrey

117. “Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.”

— Jim Carrey

118. “The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love. It becomes incredibly painful.”

— Jim Carrey

119. “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

120. “All i want to make sure of is that she’s doing something she loves. watch your kids when they sit down and absolutely get lost in something. maybe that’s what they should be doing-the thing they’re dying to do all the time.”

— Jim Carrey

121. “Movie offers are out there for me, I just don’t hear them yet.”

— Jim Carrey

122. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

123. “I love stories about teachers. For some reason I can’t get enough of those kind of stories. If I turn a movie on about a teacher, I love it. I love that idea of an adult influence on kids.”

— Jim Carrey

124. “Usually you regret the things you say no to.”

— Jim Carrey

125. “The thing is, I’ve always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they’re no longer concerned for the future.”

— Jim Carrey

126. “As far as I’m concerned, everything bad that happens in the world stems from the same place, they’re people who don’t feel important.”

— Jim Carrey

127. “But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.”

— Jim Carrey

128. “I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.”

— Jim Carrey

129. “Lots of people say if you dredge too much stuff up, you’ll go crazy – “You’ll go insane!” But for a comedian, insanity is not a problem. It’s a goal.”

— Jim Carrey

130. “It’s always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it’s nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.”

— Jim Carrey

131. “We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.”

— Jim Carrey

132. “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

133. “I absolutely want to have a career where you make’em laugh and make’em cry. It’s all theater.”

— Jim Carrey

134. “I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.”

— Jim Carrey

135. “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

136. “When I started to realise how important the film was to people I thought there is a lot of negative stuff going on in the world, maybe they need these two people.”

— Jim Carrey

137. “I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.”

— Jim Carrey

138. “I have been the guy who has everything but yet is so one-track minded about what I want, that I can’t see my blessings.”

— Jim Carrey

139. “I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.”

— Jim Carrey

140. “Well this is just a fist. But when I start throwing it around I can leave one hell of a mess.”

— Jim Carrey

141. “I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.”

— Jim Carrey

142. “Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won’t show it around. I think that’s the nobility of the character. There’s something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I’m the light guy, so I identified.”

— Jim Carrey

143. “Energy is what I believe all of us are. We’re just conscious awareness dancing for itself for no other reason but to stay amused.”

— Jim Carrey

144. “I’d like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I’m sorry. I was thinking of something else.”

— Jim Carrey

145. “The inner child runs rampant. They’re just smaller, that’s all.”

— Jim Carrey

146. “You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

— Jim Carrey

147. “I’m not a bible thumper, I’m not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.”

— Jim Carrey

148. “Kids need to know they’re the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it.”

— Jim Carrey

149. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

150. “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