Jim Carrey (Actor)

"Despite the sometimes mind-boggling excitement I now face on a day-to-day basis, I am striving to live a loving and honorable life. Lauren is my proof and my reward; not to mention a fantastic beard to conceal my raging homosexual lifestyle. Okay, the second part was a joke." - from the press release announcing his marriage to Lauren Holly, in People magazine, Feb. 10, 1997

"I need a people fix every once in a while. And it's not good enough just to run into a couple here and there, you know? I need mass audience. I need them all staring at me and completely transfixed. Everybody must be glued to me every moment." - Jim Carrey in People magazine, March 23, 2004

"I'm charming, but I dip into the Prozac now and then." - Carrey on his considerable energy, quoted in Movieline, July 1994

"I'm not celibate, and I do masturbate. But not like a fiend. I believe in moderation." - Carrey to Playboy magazine, March 2004

"I've been through the cold nights at The Comedy Store where I just went there and decided to piss the audience off and see how much hate I could absorb. It's like a theatre exercise or something. Some nights you just go up there and go, 'You know all that stuff you loved me for, you'll see none of that tonight. Not in hell.' I had times where I spent two hours on stage in The Comedy Store having that indulgence and having sticks and debris rain through the air like New Year's Eve. I even had a chair come flying at me because I said something about somebody's relationship" - Jim Carrey in Empire magazine, November 1998

"Jim's doing his characterization of Andy Kaufman, and he's very consistent and very good at what he's doing. I haven't met Jim Carrey. He came on the set as Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman or as Latka. He never came on as Jim Carrey." - Jeff Conaway, on making "Man on the Moon" with Carrey, in Variety, Aug. 24-30, 1998

"You know my worst nightmare? I end up in a sitcom called 'Jim's Place.' I'm from outer space, an intergalactic cop who crashed into the Chicago River and meets up with an earthling cop who solves crimes. That would be pretty bad. Oh and if you ever hear that I signed up to do 'Ace Ventura 5,' call me up and remind me to put a bullet in my head, okay?" - Carrey on his fear of fame to Entertainment Weekly, Aug. 5, 1994

Reflecting on his new status, Carrey said, "Society is a lot more twisted than I thought." - from People magazine, Dec. 26, 1994

While a struggling comic, Carrey wrote himself a check for $20 million and carried in his wallet until he earned that paycheck for "The Cable Guy".