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Comedy Started Out As My Hobby And Then It Became My Profession. It's Like Being On Call All The Time, Like Having A Built-in Beeper. You Can't Just Leave The Office And Relax Because You Never Know When You'll Think Of Something Funny.

-Jim Carrey

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Comedy Started Out As My Hobby And Then It Became My Profession. It's Like Being On Call All The Time, Like Having A Built-in Beeper. You Can't Just Leave The Office And Relax Because You Never Know When You'll Think Of Something Funny.

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It's Our Intention. Our Intention Is Everything. Nothing Happens On This Planet Without It. Not One Single Thing Has Ever Been Accomplished Without Intention.

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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.

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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!

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I Like To Enjoy Life, I Like To Engage In Life, So I Would Say I'm A Yes Man.

I Wish Everyone Could Experience Being Rich And Famous, So They'd See It Wasn't The Answer To Anything.

I Never Thought I Was Finished When People Said I Was Finished, Or Any Of That Stuff. I Always Had This Undying Belief That Even If I Was In A Wheelchair And I Could Only Move My Finger, Somehow I Would Become The Guy Who Does The Amazing Thing With His Finger.

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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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.

I'm A Perfectionist, So I'm Never Satisfied With Myself. I've Always Been Psychotic About That Kind Of Stuff--in A Good Way. I'm Very Disciplined. Like The Food And The Whole Thing, I'm Always Looking To "how Can I Eventually Just Turn Into A Ball Of Light And Fly Off The Planet?". Until That Happens And God Basically Pull The Blinds Back, I Will Not Be Satisfied... If I Found Out That If I Ate Pine Nuts For The Next Month I Could See God, I'd Be Eating Pine Nuts.

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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.

The Exit From Agony Is Always There. The Tunnel Out Of The Agony Sector Is Always In Front Of You And Yet You Don't Take It. You Don't Take It By Choice. You Want To Indulge A Lot And Be In Pain. The Easiest Way Out Is To Write A List Of What You're Grateful For. If Everybody Literally Did That Before They Went To Bed At Night, There'd Be No Unhappy People.

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.

Free Cable Is The Ultimate Aphrodisiac.

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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.

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.

I Enjoy Fame Except When I'm With My Daughter. Kids Stop Me All The Time And I Don't Want Her To Be Jealous Of The Attention. Also, Sometimes I Just Want To Be Left Alone And I Refuse To Make Rubber Faces. That's When They Start Asking, What's The Matter, Man, Don't You Like Your Job? I Say, Yeah, I Like My Job. But I Also Like Having Sex, And I'm Not Going To Do That In Front Of You Either.

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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.

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One Man's Toxic Waste Is Another Man's Potpourri.

I Love The Idea That 'a Person Is A Person No Matter How Small'.

As Far As I'm Concerned, Everything Bad That Happens In The World Stems From The Same Place, They're People Who Don't Feel Important.

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Life Is An Ordeal, Albeit An Exciting One, But I Wouldn't Trade It For The Good Old Days Of Poverty And Obscurity.

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Counterproductive

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I Really Believe In The Philosophy That You Create Your Own Universe. I'm Just Trying To Create A Good One For Myself.

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.

The Inner Child Runs Rampant. They're Just Smaller, That's All.

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Your Need For Acceptance Can Make You Invisible In This World. Risk Being Seen In All Of Your Glory.

When I Started Out. I'd Drive A Hundred Miles To Do My Act For Free.

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So Many Of Us Choose Our Path Out Of Fear Disguised As Practicality.

I Spent Most Of My Time In My Room Staring At A Mirror. I Never Knew I Was Supposed To Socialize. I Just Spent Hours Making Faces At Myself, Having A Good Time.

Movie Offers Are Out There For Me, I Just Don't Hear Them Yet.

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.

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.

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The Effect You Have On Others Is The Most Valuable Currency There Is.

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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.

Fear Is Going To Be A Player In Your Life, But You Get To Decide How Much.

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!

You Can Fail At What You Don’t Want, So You Might As Well Take A Chance On Doing What You Love.

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.

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.

I'm Very Serious About No Alcohol, No Drugs. Life Is Too Beautiful.

Funny Sarcastic

When You Are A Kid, You Need To Have Something To Do. This Will Keep You Off The Streets.

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.

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.

I Don't Make It In Regular Channels, And That's Okay For Me.

Everything You Gain In Life Will Rot And Fall Apart, And All That Will Be Left Of You Is What Was In Your Heart.

I Hope Everybody Could Get Rich And Famous.

I Just Love To Skate. When I Put A Skate On The Ice, I'm Free From The World, And I Have No Problems At All. I Am A Bird!

Originality Is Really Important.

My Psychiatrist Says I Have A Messiah Complex. But I Forgave Him.

The Highs And Lows Of Show Business Is A Rollercoaster For Sure. There's So Many Highs, There's Just Moments Of Your Life Where You Go, "wow I Can't Believe How Insanely Lucky I Am," And Then You Can Turn Around And The Next Moment Feel So Completely Caught Up In Your Own Wanting, And Desiring, And Needing And Feel Like Somehow You're Missing Something. It's Just Higher The High, The Lower The Low.

I Love Playing Ego And Insecurity Combined.

The Wonderful Thing About Digital Process Is That I Can Be Cast In Films That I Would Never Be Cast In. If I Have It In My Soul To Play The Character It Doesn't Matter What My Face Looks Like, Or My Age. It's Really Liberating.

But I Refuse To Believe That I Am A Better Actor Than Myself.

There Was A Time When People Said, 'jim, If You Keep On Making Faces, Your Face Will Freeze Like That.' Now They Just Say, 'pay Him!'

Movies Find Me, And I Kind Of Just Allow Them To Find Me.

Lots Of People Say If You Dredge Too Much Stuff Up, You'll Go Crazy - "you'll Go Insane!" But For A Comedian, Insanity Is Not A Problem. It's A Goal.

If I'm Not Back In 5 Minutes, Just Wait Longer.

It Is Better To Risk Starving To Death Then Surrender. If You Give Up On Your Dreams, What's Left?

I Would Do Anything To Be Anywhere In The Vicinity Of Eckhart Tolle.

My Soul Is Not Contained Within The Limits Of My Body; My Body Is Contained Within The Limitlessness Of My Soul.

My Report Card Always Said, 'jim Finishes First And Then Disrupts The Other Students'.

I've Been On A Quest For Spiritual Answers For A Long Time. The Things I've Learned About Interconnectedness And Non-duality And The Feeling Of Tapping Into Your Soul That Goes Beyond The Edge Of Your Skin Is Important To Me. Once I Learned That, I'm Far Less Often Trapped In My Own Little Man Problems. Me Against The Universe Problems.

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.

Decisions We Make

Always Turn Your Wheel In The Direction Of The Skid.

When I Started To Realise How Important The Film Was To People I Thought There Is A Lot Of Negative Stuff Going On In The World, Maybe They Need These Two People

I Don't Think Anybody Should Go Through Life Without A Team Of Psychologists. I Have Been Through Times When I'm Literally Squatting In The Living Room, Having One Of Those Open-throated Cries, Where You're Crying All The Way To Your Butthole. I Always Believed I Would Come Out Of It, Though.

I Just Like Being Creative, Whatever Way I Have To Do It.

I Just Wanna Hang Out. No Big Deal!

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Lot Of Good Love Can Happen In Ten Years.

Choose Love And Don't Ever Let Fear Turn You Away From Your Playful Heart

My Career Has Been In A Weird Kind Of Like Low-flying Under The Radar-kind Of Place. I Never Made It On "saturday Night Live" Where All My Friends Did.

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.

Fear Is Going To Be A Player In Your Life, But You Get To Decide How Much. You Can Spend Your Whole Life Imagining Ghosts, Worrying About The Pathway To The Future, But All It Will Ever Be Is What's Happening Here, The Decisions In That We Make In This Moment, Which Are Based In Either Love Or Fear.

Ya Know What I Do Almost Every Day? I Wash. Personal Hygiene Is Part Of The Package With Me.

Personal Hygiene

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.

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.

I Discovered A New Thing In The Lord's Prayer That Kind Of Hit Me. "on Earth As It Is Heaven" To Me It Means Whatever You Take Out Into The World Is What You're Going To Draw Out. Like Those Days When You're All Yang And No Yin, And You're Fighting With People Inside, And You Can't Calm Yourself Down, And Suddenly You're Pulled Over By The Cops. Everything Goes Wrong In The Same Day Because You Created It. So, If You Get Heaven Within You, It'll Be All Around You. If Hell Is Within You, It'll Be Around You. It's Always Created Here First.

You Might As Well Take A Chance On Doing What You Love.

Doing What You Love

All I Want To Make Sure Of Is That She's Doing Something She Loves. Watch Your Kids When They Sit Down And Absolutely Get Lost In Something. Maybe That's What They Should Be Doing-the Thing They're Dying To Do All The Time.

Those Times In Life When You're Terrified Are The Mastery Times.

I Have No Limits! I Cannot Be Contained Because I'm The Container.

I Have Spiritual Beliefs That I Could Literally Go Out And Make An Entire Comedy Routine About, And Tour As Some Sort Of Spiritual Guru, But It Kind Of Goes Against That [as] I Actually Believe The Things, So I'm Always Kind Of Caught In The Middle.

The Purpose Of My Life Had Always Been To Free People From Concern. I Dubbed It, 'the Church Of Freedom From Concern,' Or 'ffc.

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!

My Life Is Not Unlike Truman's. I Can't Go Anywhere.

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.

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.

My Social Life Goes In Bursts, Where I Get Like, "oh, I Gotta Get Out And Do Something, Man, I Gotta Do Something." And I'll Plan A Trip And Go On A Motorcycle Trip Down The Baja Peninsula For 900 Miles And I'll Hang Out With My Friends For Like A Month, And Then They'll Never See Me For Two Months Or Three Months Or Whatever, And I Won't Answer Any Calls.

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.

It's Time To P-a-r-t-why? Because I Gotta!

Morgan Freeman Is So Class. He's So Cool. He's So Scary.

There Are Peaks, There Are Valleys. But They're All Kind Of Carved And Smoothed Out, And It Feels Like A Low Level Of Despair You Live In. Where You're Not Getting Any Answers, But You're Living Ok. And You Can Smile At The Office. You Know? But It's A Low Level Of Despair. 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. I Had To Get Off At A Certain Point Because I Realized That, You Know, Everything's Just Ok.

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