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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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There Are Peaks, There

Jim Carrey

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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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Doing What You Love

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You Are Ready And Able To Do Beautiful Things In This World.

My Dad Was Like A Stage Mother He Always Pushed Me To Do What I Wanted.

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.

I Don't Remember Yesterday. I Pretty Much Live In The Moment.

Live In The Moment

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.

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.

The Dating Process Is Not Normal For Me.

Some Nights It Was A Melee, Literally, Where I'd Be Standing Trying To Defend Myself For What I Was Doing. People Would Be Screaming At Me To Do My Old Act, And Getting Actually Violent And Angry At Me.

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!'

Behind Every Great Man Is A Woman Rolling Her Eyes.

The Combination Of What's Written And Just Being In The Moment Is Always The Best Way. You Gotta Start Out With Something Solid And Then You Play.

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.

Always Turn Your Wheel In The Direction Of The Skid.

I Wrote Myself A Check For Ten Million Dollars For Acting Services Rendered And Dated It Thanksgiving 1995. I Put It In My Wallet And It Deteriorated. And Then, Just Before Thanksgiving 1995, I Found Out I Was Going To Make Ten Million Dollars For Dumb & Dumber. I Put That Check In The Casket With My Father Because It Was Our Dream Together.

I Cannot Be Contained Because I Am The Container.

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.

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!

I Expected That Most Of My Career Would Be In Dramatic Acting. My Hero Was James Dean.

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.

People Need Motivation To Do Anything. I Don't Think Human Beings Learn Anything Without Desperation.

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.

Like Most Catholic Boys, I Wanted To Be Jesus Christ. I Could Never Get The Turn-the-other-cheek Thing Down, Though.

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