“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.”
Business
“Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit for society. And sometimes that inspiration becomes something that's really worthwhile.”
SocietyAll Quotes by Jim Carrey
“I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
Learning“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.”
Business“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.”
Success“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.”
Experience“Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.”
Learning“Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary.”
Cool“My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.”
Life“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.”
Respect“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.”
Alone“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.”
Funny“If you've got a talent, protect it.”
Motivational“It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?”
Death“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.”
Hope“What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.”
Success“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.”
Family“The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical.”
Money“A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”
Anniversary“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.'”
Money“My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.”
Dad