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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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“I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too.”

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“Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty emotions are somehow considered more special. The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.”

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“I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases.”

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“I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time.”

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“Everybody expects the fairy tale - you're going to be together forever with somebody. I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but ten years is enough. Ten years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in ten years.”

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“Comedy started out as my hobby and then it became my profession. It's like being on call all the time, like having a built-in beeper. You can't just leave the office and relax because you never know when you'll think of something funny.”

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“I don't know what happened to architecture [in Las-Vegas] I think they're getting us ready for space colonies or something, nobody puts a window in that you can crack.”

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

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

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“I've always believed that you can funnel good things toward yourself by thinking positiviely.”

Thinking Good Things Always Believe

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“I don't think anybody should go through life without a team of psychologists. I have been through times when I'm literally squatting in the living room, having one of those open-throated cries, where you're crying all the way to your butthole. I always believed I would come out of it, though.”

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“Most of the time I live with my pain. I have pain but I won't show it around. I think that's the nobility of the character. There's something noble in not spewing on people all the time about your problems. I'm the light guy, so I identified.”

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“I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.”

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“I think there are beautiful moments. These days everybody expects that fairy tale , that you're going to be together forever with somebody and I don't really subscribe to that. I'd love that to happen if that happened, but 10 years is enough. 10 years is a good thing with somebody, I think. It's a nice thing. A lot of good love can happen in 10 years.”

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“I think that there's a natural attraction to enigmatic characters, people that have decided to make a decision in their lives to live differently than everyone else. That's a very attractive quality that also happens to be good for filmmaking, people that have their own point of view and aren't looking at things the same way as everyone else.”

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“The character is what trips you up - the thing of, "I'm going to get so dark in this character that I'm going to get lost in a character." You can't get lost in a character. You can only think you're lost in a character.”

Thinking Character Dark

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“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.”

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

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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.”

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“I don't care if people think I am an overactor, as long as they enjoy what I do. People who think that would call Van Gogh an overpainter.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

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“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.”

Thinking Kind Self Millions Danger Critical Like Me Hindrance

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“When the first big paycheque with 'Dumb And Dumber' hit, I went: 'Gosh, I wonder if this will affect my performance. Will I do a take and think, was that worth $7 million?' But that never happened. If anything, it made me rebel against that thing when people who get rich start playing it safe.”

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“I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.”

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“I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing.”

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“I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.”

Thinking Mother Father Sorry I'm Sorry Academy

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About the Author

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

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