Top 69 Quotes by Jim Carrey

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!'

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

It was such a leap in my career when 'Truman Show' came along. It's always been a long process for me insofar as recognition goes, but that's OK because you appreciate it when it comes.

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.

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.

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.'

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.

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.

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.