Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey

30 quotes

As a Canadian and American actor (b. 1962), Jim Carrey contributed not just to their field but to the broader conversation about what it means to live well. The range of their thinking — from Work to Money — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Our collection holds 46 quotes from Jim Carrey, each offering a different angle on Work, Money, Family, Time, and Success. One quote that captures their voice: "Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them."

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“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

Business

All Quotes by Jim Carrey

“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.'”

— Jim Carrey

Good

“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

Alone

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

— Jim Carrey

Cool

“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”

— Jim Carrey

Learning

“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.”

— Jim Carrey

Family

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

— Jim Carrey

Death

“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”

— Jim Carrey

Anniversary

“I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.”

— Jim Carrey

Family

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

— Jim Carrey

Life

“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.”

— Jim Carrey

Experience

“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.”

— Jim Carrey

Success

“My mother was a professional sick person she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.”

— Jim Carrey

Alone

“Creative people don't behave very well generally. If you're looking for examples of good relationships in show business, you're gonna be depressed real fast. I don't have time for anything else right now but work and my daughter. She's my first priority.”

— Jim Carrey

Business

“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.”

— Jim Carrey

Funny

“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.”

— Jim Carrey

Marriage

“I need privacy. I would think that because what I do makes a lot of people happy that I might deserve a little bit of respect in return. Instead, the papers try to drag me off my pedestal.”

— Jim Carrey

Respect

“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

Family

“If you've got a talent, protect it.”

— Jim Carrey

Motivational

“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

Work

“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'”

— Jim Carrey

Money