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All Quotes by author - Jim Carrey

" A lot of good love can happen in ten years. "

" 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. "

" Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them. "

" For some reason I did something where I realized I could get a reaction. That was when I broke out of my shell at school, because I really didn't have any friends or anything like that and I just kind of was going along, and then finally I did this zany thing, and all of a sudden I had tons of friends. "

" Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! "

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

" 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 don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. "

" 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. "

" I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started. "

" If I had never ventured beyond being a stand-up comic, then I would be sitting in my house today working on my Leonardo DiCaprio impression. "

" If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. "

" If you've got a talent, protect it. "

" I got a lot of support from my parents. That's the one thing I always appreciated. They didn't tell me I was being stupid; they told me I was being funny. "

" I haven't been as wild with my money as somebody like me might have been. I've been very safe, very conservative with investments. I don't blow money. I don't have a ton of houses. I know things can go away. I've already had that experience. "

" I just want to be 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. "

" I love playing ego and insecurity combined. "

" I'm a hard guy to live with. I'm like a caged animal. I'm up all night walking around the living room. It's hard for me to come down from what I do. "

" I'm so wrapped up in my work that it's often impossible to consider other things in my life. My marriage ended in divorce because of this, my relationship with Holly has suffered by this. "

" I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work. "

" I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. "

" 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. "

" I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. "

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

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