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

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" 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. "

" It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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.' "

" I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, 'Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.' "

" My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 love playing ego and insecurity combined. "

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

" You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I'll have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being. "

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

" 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. "

" Originality is really important. "

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

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

" Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. "

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" The money can be a hindrance to someone like me because the danger is that you start thinking, 'Is that a $20 million take?' That kind of thing, and being self-critical. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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