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" 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. "

Jim Carrey

Kid

Know

Strange

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People

Think

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

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

" It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? "

" Life is an ordeal, albeit an exciting one, but I wouldn't trade it for the good old days of poverty and obscurity. "

" 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. "

Jim Carrey

Respect

Need

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

" My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh. "

" 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. "

" We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other. "

Jim Carrey

Love

Lot

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

Jim Carrey

Make

Okay

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

" 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. "

" I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy. "

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

" 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 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. "

" Some nights it was a melee, literally, where I'd be standing trying to defend myself for what I was doing. People would be screaming at me to do my old act, and getting actually violent and angry at me. "

Jim Carrey

Trying

Doing

" 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. "

" My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she's the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time. "

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

" Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me. "

" 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. "

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

" I just want to be myself. "

" Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. "

" My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. "

Jim Carrey

Always

" I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing. "