20 Jim Carrey citations (2024)

Jim Carrey

Gay marriage is legal in 6 states, but having sex with a horse is legal in 23 states. Good job, America.

Jim Carrey

Imagine if you could actually be that happy?

Jim Carrey

Communication, hardest thing in the world.

Jim Carrey

I think we're past the time in history where you have to come out and say, "you know I'm just happy all the time! I'm a joker, I'm a crazy man!"

Jim Carrey

People would be tunneling under the street to avoid you. They'd go "Oh, man — is that happy guy still out there?

Jim Carrey

We have to say yes to socialism

Jim Carrey

The best stories in the world to me are the ones that elicit a real emotion, but have humour.

Jim Carrey

I like people. They're entertaining. I just may laugh at different things than most people.

Jim Carrey

Madness is never that far away. It's as close as saying yes to the wrong impulse.

Jim Carrey

I think you’ve got to be a little bit unpredictable in life or you are not sexy.

Jim Carrey

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Jim Carrey

I wish I could do some really weird stuff for you guys, you know?

Jim Carrey

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.

Jim Carrey

The funny things is when you start feeling happy alone, that's when everyone decides to be with you.

Jim Carrey

I think nine times out of ten the worst impulses we get are when we're behind the wheel of a car. That's why I don't think its such a good idea to have a gun … in the glove compartment. Cause chances are, if it's there, sooner or later, you're gonna use it — 'course, then again, what are you gonna do when someone cuts you off on the freeway? Just let them go? Yeah — you pretty much have to

shoot them, y'know, otherwise they won't learn nothin.

Jim Carrey

I wanted to be Arcade in a fourth X-Men movie but the prequels ruined the franchise so I became Dr. Eggman in a Sonic movie where James Marsden, the actor who played Cyclops, is the best friend of the protagonist who is a fast little animal like Wolverine.

Jim Carrey

I've learned many great leasson from my father. Not the least of which was that you can fail at what you dont want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

Jim Carrey

You could spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make in this moments which are based in either love or fear. So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dared the universe

for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him and so he made a conservative choice instead, he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could do to survive. I learned many great lessons

from my father, not the least of which was that you could fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.