James Eugene Carrey (/ˈkæri/; born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, producer and painter. He is known for his energetic slapstick performances.
The highs and lows of show business is a rollercoaster for sure. There's so many highs, there's just moments of your life where you go, "Wow I can't believe how insanely lucky I am," and then you can turn around and the next moment feel so completely caught up in your own wanting, and desiring, and needing and feel like somehow you're missing something. It's just higher the high, the lower the low.
The exit from agony is always there. The tunnel out of the agony sector is always in front of you and yet you don't take it. You don't take it by choice. You want to indulge a lot and be in pain. The easiest way out is to write a list of what you're grateful for. If everybody literally did that before they went to bed at night, there'd be no unhappy people.
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.
When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.
I was that kid. I was entertaining everybody in the living room and throwing myself down flights of stairs and making the family look special and making my mother feel better and I really wanted to make people happy. That has been my ministry my whole life. I call it The Church of F. F. C. - The Church of Freedom From Concern. And I'm a high priest in that church.
I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.
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.
I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world.
Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.
If I'm not back in 5 minutes, just wait longer.
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.
My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere.
I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power.
Originality is really important.
I try to do something the audience might not have seen before.
I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.
It's time to P-A-R-T-Why? Because I gotta!
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.
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world. You will only ever have two choices- love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart