Jim Carrey

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it.

Everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart, and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart.

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.

You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music.

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.

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.

I've never been one to sit back and go, 'I'd better do what the audience wants me to do, because I don't want to lose them.'

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!'

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

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.

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

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.

I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.

People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation.

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 on, performing.

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

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased.

But, you know, you can't be a star at home.

I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.