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" Originality is really important. "
Jim Carrey
Important
Originality
Really
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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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" But, you know, you can't be a star at home. "
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" I don't make it in regular channels, and that's okay for me. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" 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. "
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" I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. "
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" 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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Success
Care
" I just want to be myself. "
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Want
Just
" 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. "
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Time
Good
Work
" It's nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren't the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with. "
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Me
Scripts
Butt
" 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
" Maybe there is no actual place called hell. Maybe hell is just having to listen to our grandparents breathe through their noses when they're eating sandwiches. "
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Hell
Eating
Place
" Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself. "
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People
Will
Try
" 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
" 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 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. "
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Mother
Time
Pain
" 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. "
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Think
Care
" Morgan Freeman is so class. He's so cool. He's so scary. "
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Class
Cool
" Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them. "
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Life
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" A lot of good love can happen in ten years. "
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Anniversary
Good
" 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. "
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Funny
Support
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" We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other. "
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Love
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" 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
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" If you've got a talent, protect it. "
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Protect
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" 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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Care
Guilt
" 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. "
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Respect
Need
" I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. "
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Forever
Know
" 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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Life
Feel