James Eugene Redmond "Jim" Carrey
(born January 17, 1962) is a
Canadian
film
actor
and
comedian
. He is known for his manic,
slapstick
performances in comedy films such as
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
;
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls
;
The Mask
;
Dumb and Dumber
;
Me, Myself & Irene
;
Fun with Dick and Jane
;
The Cable Guy
;
Liar Liar
;
Bruce Almighty
; and
Batman Forever
. Carrey has also achieved critical success in dramatic roles in films such as
The Truman Show
,
Man on the Moon
, and
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
. He also provides the voice for Horton the Elephant in the animated feature film
Horton Hears a Who!
, released on March 14, 2008. The film was his first animated feature role. He has won two Golden Globe Awards. He is of English, French, Irish, Scottish descent
- Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.
- I enjoy my life.
The
fame
part of it freaked me out for a little while, and there are definitely times when it's not so
great
to be special and known by everybody ? you know, when you're wearing the wrong thing, or just in a vulnerable place. But I'm good with my life now.
- 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.
- As quoted in
Major in Success
(2003) by Patrick Combs and Jack Canfield, p. 60
- If you aren’t in the
moment
, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to
pain
and
regret
.
- I like
people
. They're entertaining. I just may
laugh
at different things than most people.
I laugh at mistakes. I laugh at how you recover from mistakes.
- I think we're past the
time
in
history
where you have to come out and say, "you know I'm just
happy
all
the
time
! I'm a
joker
, I'm a
crazy
man!" you know kind of thing.
I think people
understand
I can turn that switch on but I'm also a sensitive, normal
human
being with
feelings
and I know how to express those too.
- Comedic actors can be looked at as a lower form because we have to put ourselves in a lower place than most of the audience. I think lofty
emotions
are somehow considered more special.
The best
stories
in the
world
to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have
humour
.
- You could spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moments which are based in either love or fear. 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 dared the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him and so he made a conservative choice instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could do to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you could fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
- I've learned many great leasson from my father. Not the least of which was that
you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
- We have to say yes to
socialism
? to the word and everything [...] Medicare for all, ending student debt, a different approach to the war on terror, ending mass incarceration.
- Everything should be considered.
That's all. I think that's all people want. All people want is to be considered.
- Untold American lives have been ruined by the presidency of
Donald Trump
. The rule of law is imperiled, our unity has been shattered, the service sector has been obliterated, and major cities are suffering. Black Americans, who have endured half a millennium of wickedness and brutality, now face more injustice and death.
- Last week, amid all this suffering, Trump and his acolytes held their Totally Illegal
COVID-19
Super-Spreader Spectacular at the White House, in flagrant violation of the
Hatch Act
.
Jim Carrey's Unnatural Act
(1991)
[
edit
]
- Online at YouTube
- 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?
- Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.
The people who stay sane are the people who can make those quick decisions: "Should I stick my fingers into the fan, or leave the room right now?
"Should I run the blade of this razor across my tongue, or just
finish
shaving and move away from the sink?"
But you don't because luckily most of us have that little voice inside our head that says, "Uh uh uh, turning the car into oncoming traffic...
is counterproductive!
"
- I think nine times out of ten the worst impulses we get are when we're behind the wheel of a car. That's why I don't think its such a good idea to have a gun …
in the glove compartment.
Cause chances are, if it's there, sooner or later, you're gonna use it ?
'course, then again, what are you gonna do when someone cuts you off on the freeway?
Just let them go?
Yeah ? you pretty much
have
to shoot them, y'know, otherwise they won't
learn nothin'.
- Communication, hardest thing in the world.
Y'know, I can look at you guys, I can communicate to you all night, but, one-on-one, I'm terrible. It's just, there's certain things about communicating that
really
bother me. Like whenever I meet somebody new I say, "Hi! How are you!" Most of the time when people hear that they'll say, "Good! And yourself?", or "Fine! Thank you very much!" But sometimes they like to surprise you, "I've got no dream, man!
I'm all dead inside!
"
- I wish I could do some really weird stuff for you guys, you know?
- After a stint of hyperactive gymnastic antics upon the stage.
- (Parodying
Informer
by Snow)
- You can criticise me all the way to the bank
- My singles' number one and
Shabba don't rank
- I wanted to be Arcade in a fourth X-Men movie but the prequels ruined the franchise so I became Dr. Eggman in a Sonic movie where James Marsden, the actor who played Cyclops, is the best friend of the protagonist who is a fast little animal like Wolverine.
- You are a bastard.
Hi @JimCarrey do you know the history of #RosaPark?