"My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig."
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Jim Carrey quotes (page 5 of 14)
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"Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me."
"Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do?"
"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."
"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."
"Choose love and don't ever let fear turn you away from your playful heart"
"I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich."
"One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri."
"Originality is really important."
"Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?"
"My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'."
"Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity."
"Risk being seen in all of your glory."
"Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive!"
"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."
"We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other."
"You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities."
"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."
"In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there."
"I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy."