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" My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. "
Jim Carrey
Life
Anywhere
Go
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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. "
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" If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret. "
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" Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting. "
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You
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" It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? "
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" But, you know, you can't be a star at home. "
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" 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. "
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Point
Job
Work
" 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. "
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Living
Live
" What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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. "
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People
Success
Care
" I've tried everything. I've done therapy, I've done colonics. I went to a psychic who had me running around town buying pieces of ribbon to fill the colors in my aura. Did the Prozac thing. "
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Therapy
Colors
Done
" 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. "
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Ideas
Me
Love
" My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'. "
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Students
Said
Always
" My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. "
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Canada
Always
Person
" I want to be the greatest actor that ever lived, frankly. I'd love that. But I don't need to be. I just want to be here. That's it. "
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Love
Actor
Here
" Originality is really important. "
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Important
Originality
Really
" 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. "
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Experience
Safe
Money
" My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted. "
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Like
Always
He
" 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!' "
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You
Face
People
" 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. "
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Never
Working
Today
" I've arrived at the place if I'm not taking a career risk, I'm not happy. If I'm scared, then I know I'm being challenged. "
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Career
Know
Place
" Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. "
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Afraid
Life
Opportunities
" 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. "
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Kind
Reason
School
" Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes. "
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Eyes
Her
Great
" 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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You
Believe
" I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. "
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Want
Forever
Know
" Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. "
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People
Will
Try
" 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. "
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Money
Life
Feel
" People need motivation to do anything. I don't think human beings learn anything without desperation. "
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Need
Motivation
Learn
" 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.' "
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Coffee
Beautiful
Morning
" A lot of good love can happen in ten years. "
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Years
Anniversary
Good