Jim Carrey is a comedian, musician and an actor from Canada. He was born in Newmarket, which is a suburb in the city of Toronto in Ontario. Jim Carrey was born on the 17th of January in the year of 1962. He is currently 57 years old now. Jim Carrey was raised in a Roman Catholic household. He had three siblings in his family and his mother and father was a homemaker and a musician. He was married to Jenny McCarthy and has one child from his marriage. Carrey as a young child attended the Aldershot High School.
Jim Carrey gained popularity when he took part in the sketch comedy show “In Living Color” in the 1990s. Jim Carrey struggled on in the early stages of his career when he performed in several standup comedy shows in and around Toronto. He gained his first major starring role in the year 1994 when he starred in the movie “Ace Ventura: Pet Detective”. He later went on to star in movies such as “The Mask”, “Dumb and Dumber”, and “The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind” which were massive hits at the US box office. Jim Carrey is loved universally by his fans for his slapstick comedy and his amazing impressions.
- “So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it” – Jim Carrey
- “Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.” – Jim Carrey
- “It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?” – Jim Carrey
- “If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.” – 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
- “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.” – Jim Carrey
- “My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.” – Jim Carrey
- “There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that’s going to eat you.” – Jim Carrey
- “I don’t believe in hope. Hope is a beggar. Hope walks through the fire, faith leaps over it.” – 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
- “Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.” – Jim Carrey
- “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
- “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
- “I practiced 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
- “It’s nice to finally get scripts offered to me that aren’t the ones Tom Hanks wipes his butt with.” – 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
- “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.” – Jim Carrey
- “But, you know, you can’t be a star at home.” – 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
- “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
- “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
- “Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.” – 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
- “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
- “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.” – 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
- “My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.” – Jim Carrey
- “You can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.” – Jim Carrey
- “A lot of good love can happen in ten years.” – Jim Carrey
- “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
