23 Jim Carrey Quotes To Help You Become The Best You

By Mayukh Saha / Truth Theory

Jim Carrey is one of the most respected actors that Hollywood has ever produced. He has been extremely versatile over the decades, with comedy being his strongest suit. As a human, Jim Carrey has some very strong ethics and morals which make him the actor that he is today. His movies ‘Dumb and Dumber’, ‘Ace Ventura’ and others might have been flat out comedies, but the lessons they taught go well beyond a few giggles and laughs. Jim Carrey has taught the world what it means to be human, and how it means to live.

Here are 23 quotes by the great man himself that is bound to inspire you to be the best there is.

1. Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
2. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don’t want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
3. Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.
4. Either you’re the one erasing or you’re the one being erased.
5. My focus is to forget the pain of life. Forget the pain, mock the pain, reduce it. And laugh.
6. 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.
7. People need motivation to do anything. I don’t think human beings learn anything without desperation.
8. Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don’t limit myself.
9. 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.
10. As far as I can tell, it’s just about letting the universe know what you want and then working toward it while letting go of how it comes to pass.
11. If you’ve got a talent, protect it.
12. My soul is not contained within the limits of my body. My body is contained within the limitlessness of my soul.
13. I wake up some mornings and sit and have my coffee and look out at my beautiful garden, and I go, ’Remember how good this is. Because you can lose it.
14. 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.
15. I’m making a conscious choice to see challenges as beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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.
19. 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.
20. I really believe in the philosophy that you create your own universe. I’m just trying to create a good one for myself.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 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.

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Well, if anyone knows what it means to rise above all odds and make a place for themselves, it is Jim Carrey.

Image Credit: Jim Carrey via Netflix