110+ Jim Carrey Quotes On Money, Relationship And Success

Jim Carrey is a Canadian comedian, actor, and producer. He is known for his energetic slapstick performances and has starred in films such as The Mask, Ace Ventura, Dumb and Dumber, The Truman Show, Bruce Almighty, and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. He has won two Golden Globe Awards and has also received four Emmy Award nominations. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Jim Carrey on life, money, relationship.

Top 10 Jim Carrey Quotes

1. I think everybody should get rich and famous and do everything they ever dreamed of so they can see that it's not the answer.
2. Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
3. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
4. 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.
5. 150 people die every year from being hit by falling coconuts. Not to worry, drug makers are developing a vaccine.
6. It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
7. Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up & turn toward the light & that makes them beautiful.
8. 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.
9. Ever since I started to get recognition I've picked out certain fans and reverse-stalked them.
10. My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.

Jim Carrey Short Quotes

• Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.
• Until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass.
• The effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is.
• A better you means a better universe.
• If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
• If I'm not back in five minutes... just wait longer!
• I absolutely want to have a career where you make'em laugh and make'em cry. It's all theater.
• My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.
• If you've got a talent, protect it.
• Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Jim Carrey Quotes About Life

Green Eggs and Ham was the story of my life. I wouldn't eat a thing when I was a kid, but Dr. Seuss inspired me to try cauliflower! — Jim Carrey

I wanted to be a veterinarian for about a week of my life when I was a kid. But I found out about the whole euthanasia thing and I said, I can't commit to that, sorry! — Jim Carrey

I would challenge anybody in their darkest moment to write what they're grateful for, even stupid little things like the green grass that made them feel good, the friendly conversation they had with somebody on an alevator. You start to realize how rich you are. — Jim Carrey

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful. — Jim Carrey

My psychiatrist says I have a messiah complex. But I forgave him. — Jim Carrey

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

I love the idea that 'a person is a person no matter how small'. — Jim Carrey

I would visualize things coming to me. It would just make me feel better. Visualization works if you work hard. That's the thing. You can't just visualize and go eat a sandwich. — Jim Carrey

I think projects find me. It's really interesting. Everything I've done, from "The Truman Show," the "Eternal Sunshine" to "Yes Man" and "Bruce Almighty," always come into my life at the perfect time. — Jim Carrey

The thing is, I've always tried to create transcendent moments. Moments that take people away from their concerns. Heaven to me is when people find a way to become so involved with life that they're no longer concerned for the future. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Money

That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.' — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

It's always fun to do something that you know ultimately is not about the money, and it's certainly not for the fame - because it's a pain in the ass. But it's really the person in the theater seat you think about when you sit in a room and write. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

I got paid a lot of money at one point so the focus became, for a lot of people, about that, but for me, it's always been the same goal: To stop the world for people. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Relationship

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. — Jim Carrey

Every character I do is something special to me. Every time you score with a great character relationship in a movie, it becomes your baby. — Jim Carrey

The dating process is not normal for me. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Success

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

There are two thoughts that will ensure success in all you do; (1) Don't tell everything you know, and (2) until Ace Ventura, no actor had considered talking through his ass. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Happiness

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

Imagine if you could actually be that happy? That would be powerful, man. People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go 'Oh, man - is that happy guy still out there?' — Jim Carrey

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "I'm happy all the time! I'm a joker! I'm a crazy man!" I think people understand that I can turn that switch on but that I'm also a sensitive, normal human being with feelings and I know how to express those too. — Jim Carrey

I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy. — Jim Carrey

Isn't it cool when the days that are supposed to feel good, actually do? — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Christmas

I hate Christmas. I do think it is odd that I have wound up playing these two iconic Christmas haters. It is the same story, in a way. Scrooge is the original Grinch. I think I am perfectly suited, because I have had some dark Christmases. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Christmas was really where I started coming into my own as a performer because I did all this stuff on my own, all this performing on my own. When other kids were outside playing, I was in my room conjuring characters and impressions and things like that. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Funny

You might as well take a chance on doing what you love. — Jim Carrey

I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love — Jim Carrey

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. — Jim Carrey

Hysterical in The Mask; funny yet moving in The Truman Show. — Jim Carrey

I can be your best friend or your worst enemy. You seem to prefer the latter. — Jim Carrey

I don't feel any pressure to be funny at all. I'm funny because I want to be funny. I could sit here and be serious for an hour and you would go away and make me much funnier than I am. — Jim Carrey

Just because I rock doesn't mean I am made of stone. — Jim Carrey

Don't you just hate it, when you are in bed with three beautiful women, and the least attractive one whispers: save it for me! — Jim Carrey

You know the trouble with real life? There's no danger music. — Jim Carrey

You can be zany and funny or you can do something that really has some depth to it and serious, so there's many different colors to paint with. I would hate to get trapped in one little thing. I always feel like funny is an appendage, but it is not my whole body. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About People

50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point? — Jim Carrey

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

The purpose of art is to bring people into presence. — Jim Carrey

It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds. — Jim Carrey

I think if we all acted the way we felt, four out of eight people at a dinner table would be sitting there sobbing. — Jim Carrey

I was on Prozac for a long time. It may have helped me out of a jam for a little bit, but people stay on it forever. — Jim Carrey

I've often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it's not where you'll find your sense of completion. — Jim Carrey

I'm not always looking for the laugh. I'm not the guy who sits in and listens to conversations and wants to jump in with something hilarious every two seconds. I actually do listen to people. — Jim Carrey

My spiritual journey has been a good kind of thing I've been on. I guess some people would say I'm obsessed with it, but in a really good way. It's just enjoyable. I don't really have crazy obsessions about things. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Love

You can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. — Jim Carrey

You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world....you will only ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don’t ever let fear turn you against your playful heart. — Jim Carrey

I really want to love somebody. I do. I just don't know if it's possible forever and ever. — Jim Carrey

When someone you love dies, you don't lose them all at once. You lose them in pieces over time, like how the mail stops coming. — Jim Carrey

Our love is like a red, red rose... and I am a little thorny. — Jim Carrey

A lot of good love can happen in ten years. — Jim Carrey

I don't hate you for loving you. I just hate my heart for choosing someone like you. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

I love playing ego and insecurity combined. — Jim Carrey

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

Jim Carrey Quotes About Point

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

There's been a thoughtfulness to everything I do. Even the stupidest things I do have some kind of point. — Jim Carrey

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

Humor is not debatable. It's like sex. Either you're aroused or you're not. Nobody can reason you around to their point of view. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Quotes About Work

Our eyes are not viewers, they're also projectors that are running a second story over the picture that we see in front of us all the time. Fear is writing that script, and the working title is 'I'll never be enough' — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

I get excited when the people I work with scare me. I get excited when I'm surrounded by people who make me better and make me stay on my game and challenge me. — Jim Carrey

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there. — Jim Carrey

As far as I can tell, it's just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass. — Jim Carrey

Jim Carrey Famous Quotes And Sayings

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. — Jim Carrey

Take a chance on faith - not religion, but faith. Not hope, but faith. I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it. — Jim Carrey

Like many of you, I was concerned about going out into the world and doing something bigger than myself. Until someone smarter than myself made me realize that there is nothing bigger than myself. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

I feel like I've lived the dream for sure, I'm the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I'm proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you're really doing something. — Jim Carrey

So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. — Jim Carrey

Any1 who would run out to buy an assault rifle after the Newtown massacre has very little left in their body or soul worth protecting. ;^ — Jim Carrey

To find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. Risk being seen in all of your glory. — Jim Carrey

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

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.' — Jim Carrey

I'm talkin' about a place where the beer flows like wine, where the women instinctively flock like the salmon of Capistrano. I'm talkin' about Aspen. — Jim Carrey

The future is now! Soon every American home will integrate their television, phone and computer. You'll be able to visit the Louvre on one channel, or watch female wrestling on another. You can do your shopping at home, or play Mortal Kombat with a friend from Vietnam. There's no end to the possibilities! — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Kids need to know they're the most important thing in the world to you, and if that means quitting your job to prove it, then you have to prove it. — Jim Carrey

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse. — Jim Carrey

My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian. — Jim Carrey

I wish everyone could experience being rich and famous, so they'd see it wasn't the answer to anything. — Jim Carrey

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

Originality is really important. — Jim Carrey

One man's toxic waste is another man's potpourri. — Jim Carrey

Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic... is counterproductive! — Jim Carrey

Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat? — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness; a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. — Jim Carrey

I cannot be contained because I am the container. — Jim Carrey

I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

The early bird gathers no moss! The rolling stone catches the worm. — Jim Carrey

I said yes to so many things, from a sex change to gastric by-pass surgery, so it's always paid off for me. — Jim Carrey

Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out. — Jim Carrey

All there will ever be is what's happening here. Decisions we make in this moment are based on either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality. — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

That peace that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality, beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace, you have to let the armor fall. — Jim Carrey

I try to do something the audience might not have seen before. — Jim Carrey

Risk being seen in all of your glory. — Jim Carrey

Be grateful. Find something to be grateful for. Don't do too many things that make you feel like you deserve to lose because we do program our own computers. I believe there is a plus and a minus column and if you end up on the minus column, your own conscience will make you lose. — Jim Carrey

I just wanna hang out. No big deal! — Jim Carrey

but can everyone simply choose the path he loves? someone has to take the ordinary jobs. all i know is, that worked for me. and it didn't work for other people i know to get a so-called safe job, because there's no such thing anymore. the only thing that stays constant is the idea that people have to escape. — Jim Carrey

I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us. — Jim Carrey

I come from the philosophy of: "Whatever happens to me is the greatest thing that could happen, no matter what." Sometimes in the moment I have a regret, but then I have found myself every time down the line saying to myself: "I wouldn't be here if it weren't for that so called failure." — Jim Carrey

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. — Jim Carrey

My life is not unlike Truman's. I can't go anywhere. — Jim Carrey

Either you're the one erasing or you're the one being erased. — Jim Carrey

Life Lessons by Jim Carrey

1. Jim Carrey has taught us to never give up on our dreams and to always stay positive, no matter how hard life gets.
2. He has also taught us to never take life too seriously and to always find joy and humor in every situation.
3. Lastly, he has taught us to always stay true to ourselves and never give up on our passions and ambitions.