Top 180 Jim Carrey Quotes (2024 Update)
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151. “Every character is a baby. You can’t choose between them. If you can, you didn’t do your job. You have to fall in love with every character.”

— Jim Carrey

152. “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

153. “Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they’re eating sandwiches.”

— Jim Carrey

154. “Come back here so that I may brain thee!”

— Jim Carrey

155. “A better you means a better universe.”

— Jim Carrey

156. “I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.”

— Jim Carrey

157. “I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn’t really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.”

— Jim Carrey

158. “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

159. “The dating process is not normal for me.”

— Jim Carrey

160. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

161. “I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.”

— Jim Carrey

162. “I think I could go away tomorrow. I’ve already accomplished something. It’s such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.”

— Jim Carrey

163. “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

164. “Everybody expects the fairy tale – you’re going to be together forever with somebody. I don’t really subscribe to that. I’d love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It’s a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”

— Jim Carrey

165. “The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, ‘What is it? How do I get it?’”

— Jim Carrey

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

— Jim Carrey

167. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

168. “When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.”

— Jim Carrey

169. “Human things have long since jumped the shark.”

— Jim Carrey

170. “I’ve always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.”

— Jim Carrey

171. “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

172. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

173. “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.”

— Jim Carrey

174. “I think obsessions happen because you’re trying to understand something or some urge.”

— Jim Carrey

175. “I think projects find me. It’s really interesting. Everything I’ve done, from “The Truman Show,” the “Eternal Sunshine” to “Yes Man” and “Bruce Almighty,” always come into my life at the perfect time.”

— Jim Carrey

176. “I don’t think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I’m literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you’re crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.”

— Jim Carrey

177. “Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.”

— Jim Carrey

178. “If done right, kidnapping can be a positive experience for everyone.”

— Jim Carrey

179. “It’s exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.”

— Jim Carrey

180. “The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn’t matter what my face looks like, or my age. It’s really liberating.”

— Jim Carrey

181. “Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.”

— Jim Carrey

182. “Since I’ve been spending my time in nature with animals, I found out that we are the wild savages, and they are the ones who are actually civilized.”

— Jim Carrey

183. “We don’t matter. There’s the good news.”

— Jim Carrey

184. “Might they one day reconstruct the ruins of the mind as well as those of the body?”

— Jim Carrey

185. “Anyone can rejigger an atom bomb,” said Hopkins. “But to possess the minds of millions? To make them your willing zombies across a whole decade? That’s real magic.”

— Jim Carrey

186. “Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful?”

— Jim Carrey

187. “The world he saw on the news came to seem like a genre-fusing farce, its story lines ever less plausible, ever more dispiriting. The world of the chamber, by contrast, was all impressionist masterworks, images and plotlines manifestly finer and more nourishing than what, of late, was passing for the real.”

— Jim Carrey