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Jim Carrey, born on January 17, 1962, is a renowned Canadian actor, comedian, and comedy screenwriter. Known for his exaggerated performance style and unique comedic talent, he has been nominated for multiple Oscars and is best known for his roles in 'The Mask' and 'Forrest Gump'.

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“The combination of what's written and just being in the moment is always the best way. You gotta start out with something solid and then you play.”

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“When you are a kid, you need to have something to do. This will keep you off the streets.”

Needs Kids Streets

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“I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'.”

“I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.”

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“I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure."”

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“I started out performing as a little boy, I was trying to make my mother feel better and laugh because she was sick and in pain all the time. I found out that I had that power to relieve her.”

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“What I do as an art form is try to make people feel good and if I do try to make them feel bad, it's for a reason. There's something I am trying to say.”

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“Acting is divine dissatisfaction. It's the greatest thing in the world to do, but you are never satisfied with it ever.”

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“I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.”

People World Want Force Making People Happy

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“I do whatever [comedies] I'm attracted to. It's like the woman who stands out in the crowd, who for some reason you notice, that's the one you're supposed to dance with at that time in your life. That's just what it is with scripts... they find you when you're emotionally in the right place to do them.”

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“The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.”

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“I don't ever want to stick myself in one category. I do really love making movies, but the thing about live performances is you don't have to wait around. Literally, we're still waiting to see what the reaction is to the film, so it's a slower process. But it is enjoyable.”

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“I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something.”

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“I never thought I was finished when people said I was finished, or any of that stuff. I always had this undying belief that even if I was in a wheelchair and I could only move my finger, somehow I would become the guy who does the amazing thing with his finger.”

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“The only thing that has ever consumed me is love from time to time. Feeling like, 'What is it? How do I get it?'”

Feelings Consumed

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“My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things.”

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“I think obsessions happen because you're trying to understand something or some urge.”

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“I try to stay in decent shape always. I pride myself on staying at least a month away from really good shape.”

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“Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.”

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“I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.”

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“You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body.”

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“When I started out. I'd drive a hundred miles to do my act for free.”

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“Not hope, but Faith. I don't believe in hope. Hope is a beggar.”

Believe Don't Believe Beggar

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“Movies are great, but the real romance happens right here somewhere as real close-up. Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased, so... It's not a pleasant feeling!”

Real Feelings Happens Romance Pleasant

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“You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!"”

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“I just love to skate. When I put a skate on the ice, I'm free from the world, and I have no problems at all. I am a bird!”

World Problem Bird Ice No Problem Skates

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“The wonderful thing about digital process is that I can be cast in films that I would never be cast in. If I have it in my soul to play the character it doesn't matter what my face looks like, or my age. It's really liberating.”

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“I expected that most of my career would be in dramatic acting. My hero was James Dean.”

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“I'm always trying to complicate things. For some reason I'll go, "Well, maybe I can get that in," and stuff like that. I always make it really hard for myself.”

Trying Wells I Can Hard Reason Stuff Always Trying

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“I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.”

Men Enjoy Enjoy Life

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“I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me.”

Said Sex Paid Surgery Paid Off Gastric Sex Change

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“Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.”

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“I have spiritual beliefs that I could literally go out and make an entire comedy routine about, and tour as some sort of spiritual guru, but it kind of goes against that [as] I actually believe the things, so I'm always kind of caught in the middle.”

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“Usually you regret the things you say no to.”

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“I'm not in a recession. I'm doing very, very well. I'm doing incredibly well. I just want to be honest. I really am kicking ass.”

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“It's exhausting I think to just say really yes to everything for real, even if you do it for a day.”

Ifs Thinking Real Exhausting

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“I just like being creative, whatever way I have to do it.”

Way Creative Be Creative

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“It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write.”

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“My social life goes in bursts, where I get like, "Oh, I gotta get out and do something, man, I gotta do something." And I'll plan a trip and go on a motorcycle trip down the Baja Peninsula for 900 miles and I'll hang out with my friends for like a month, and then they'll never see me for two months or three months or whatever, and I won't answer any calls.”

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“I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.”

Thinking Way Kind I Can Steady Schedules

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“It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.”

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“I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am.”

Want Feels Hours Serious Pressure Going Away

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“I love acting. I love play-acting. I love pretending. I love telling stories so whether they be comedic or serious or whatever, it doesn't really matter to me. I enjoy telling a good story. I have it all in me.”

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“I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people.”

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“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.”

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“Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose.”

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“Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view.”

Reason Sex Views Point Of View

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“I think it's important never to look a gift horse in the mouth, never to overlook your talents [and] what you're good at.”

Thinking Looks Important Talent Mouths Horse

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“I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.”

Believe Force Stuff Bible Thumpers

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“My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on "Saturday Night Live" where all my friends did.”

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About the Author

Born: January 17, 1962
Known for: Actor
Quotes: 275

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