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" 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. "

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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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" I love playing ego and insecurity combined. "

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

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

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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'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. "

" 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!' "

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

" My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. "

" I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. Like if I'm gonna kiss a girl I wanna kiss her like a girl has never been kissed. Like maybe I would kick her legs out from under her and catch her right before she hits the ground and then kiss her. "

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

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

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

" 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. "

" I just want to be myself. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "