You know, I live a monastic lifestyle. No, I do. I do live in extremes, basically. I go back and forth. Once every six months, I will have a day where I eat more chocolate than has ever been consumed by a human being.- Jim Carrey
Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.
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.
What I have in common with the character in 'Truman' is this incredible need to please people. 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.
We had problems like all families but we had a lot of love. I was extremely loved. We always felt we had each other.
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!'
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.
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 are pulling down.'
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.
People need motivation to do anything. I do not think human beings learn anything without desperation.
Originality is really important.
One thing I hope I will never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.
My upbringing in Canada made me the person I am. I will always be proud to be a Canadian.
My report card always said, 'Jim finishes first and then disrupts the other students'.
My mother was a professional sick person; she took a lot of pain pills. There are many people like that. It's just how they are used to getting attention. I always remember she is the daughter of alcoholics who'd leave her alone at Christmas time.
