Jim Carrey Quotes

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Jim Carrey

Profession : Comedian

Birth : January 17, 1962

If you've got a talent, protect it.

Jim Carrey

I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience.

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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.

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My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.

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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 feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

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Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity.

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I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.'

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I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I'm just trying to create a good one for myself.

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I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this.

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Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

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I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny.

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Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.

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One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

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

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

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

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My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

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

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Originality is really important.

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