Jim Carrey Quotes

Madness is never that far away. It’s as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

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.’

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

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.

I don’t make it in regular channels, and that’s okay for me.

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.

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.

My soul is not contained within the limits of my body; my body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.

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

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

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.

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.

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

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!’