Jim Carrey quotes

Jim Carrey is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, and artist known for his energetic slapstick performances. His roles in films such as "Ace Ventura: Pet Detective," "The Mask," and "The Truman Show" brought him worldwide fame. He continues to be celebrated for his versatile talent and unique sense of humor. Here are 102 of his quotes:

Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.

Jim Carrey

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey

Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America.

Jim Carrey

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

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

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

Jim Carrey

Originality is really important.

Jim Carrey

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

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Jim Carrey

I think you've got to be a little bit unpredictable in life or you are not sexy.

Jim Carrey

I've learned many great leasson from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Jim Carrey

Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.

Jim Carrey

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her.

Jim Carrey

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

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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

I love playing ego and insecurity combined.

Jim Carrey

I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.

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My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.

Jim Carrey

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course.

Jim Carrey

For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends.

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But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

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