Quotes & Jokes by Jim Carrey / page 5

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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.

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

Originality is really important.

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.

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 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.

There is nothing like making love to somebody you give a shit about.

Come back here, so that I may brain thee!

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.

Uh-oh, Steven called the fuzz! "Bad boys, bad boys... whatcha gonna do?"

A lot of good love can happen in ten years.

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."

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.

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

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."