Quote

comedy is a high form of art becaus it brings us more joy than anything else, practically but at the same time, it doesn't get a lot of respect. that's the sacrifice you make to do it.

Jim Carrey

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Jim Carrey
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: January 17
Actor
Anti-Vaccine Activist
Comedian
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Television Actor
Voice Actor
James Carrey
James Eugene Carrey
Jim Eugene Carrey
Jim Carey
James Carey
James Eugene Carey
Jim Eugene Carey
Make
Joy
Time
Comedy
High
Doesn
Art
Practically
Else
Brings
Form
Sacrifice
Anything
Respect

More quotes by Jim Carrey

Image
Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself.
Jim Carrey
Image
The worst thing in the world when you feel broken is to have somebody coming at you with open-faced love.
Jim Carrey
Image
50 years: here's a time when you have to separate yourself from what other people expect of you, and do what you love. Because if you find yourself 50 years old and you aren't doing what you love, then what's the point?
Jim Carrey
Image
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey
Image
You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities.
Jim Carrey
Image
Psychologically, it's what I love to be. Tearing apart a person from the inside out.
Jim Carrey
Image
I'm not a bible thumper, I'm not any of that stuff, but I do believe that the force is with us.
Jim Carrey
Image
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
Image
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.
Jim Carrey
Image
Hope walks through the fire. Faith leaps over it.
Jim Carrey
Image
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Jim Carrey
Image
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.
Jim Carrey
Image
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.
Jim Carrey
Image
I want to be a positive force in the world, I would like to make people happy.
Jim Carrey
Image
Everything can be made fun of. The most serious things are ripe for making fun of them.
Jim Carrey
Image
It's always good I think in general to have different energies on screen, like it's nice to have different characters go at different speeds, just like different people work at different speeds.
Jim Carrey
Image
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.
Jim Carrey
Image
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.
Jim Carrey
Image
Riddle me this, riddle me that. Who's afraid of the big black bat?
Jim Carrey
Image
Charles Dickens was an incredibly cinematic writer. He wrote this one hundred years before there were movies. He writes very thematically. It is amazing.
Jim Carrey