I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
Quote by Jim Carrey
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I'm the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it's still about the work.
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Jim Carrey Quotes
- 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.'
- I refuse to feel guilty. I feel guilty about too much in my life but not about money. I went through periods when I had nothing, so somebody in my family has to get stinkin' wealthy.
- My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.
- It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
- I think I could go away tomorrow. I've already accomplished something. It's such a selfish business that sometimes I get sick of myself.
- Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain't desperate at some point, you ain't interesting.
- 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.
- Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
- 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.'
- My family kinda hit the skids. We were experiencing poverty at that point. We all got a job, where the whole family had to work as security guards and janitors. And I just got angry.
Best Quotes
- As the National Football League and other pro sports increasingly reckon with the early dementia, mental health issues, suicides and even criminal behavior of former players, the risk of what's known as chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), is becoming clear.
- Music rhythms are mathematical patterns. When you hear a song and your body starts moving with it, your body is doing math. The kids in their parents' garage practicing to be a band may not realize it, but they're also practicing math.
- Live truth instead of professing it.
- A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
- It's hardware that makes a machine fast. It's software that makes a fast machine slow.
- Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions for opinions in good men is but knowledge in the making.
- Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience.
- At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he is seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he know he can't.
- Sunscreen is my number 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 tip. I'm a fanatic, partially because I live in L.A. and have fair skin and freckles, and partially because of my kids. My mom always made me wear sunscreen and I'm trying to be that mom for them.
- No man is useless while he has a friend.