"I don't judge you for what you've done, Gin. Why are you judging me for another man's mistakes?"

“You need to become a good listener. As you're working, you hear someone else's lines and how you absorb them becomes your acting.”

“Even the best of friends need time apart.”

“You all sound like a bunch of ducks! What? What? What? What? Shut up while I'm talking!”

“How to forgive the world for its beauty, which merely disguises its ugliness; for its gentleness, which merely cloaks its cruelty; for its illusion of continuity, seamlessly, as the night follows the day, so to speak- whereas in reality life is a series of brutal raptures, falling upon your defenseless hands, like the blows of a woodman's axe?”

“You might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”

Source : "Jim Carrey Receives Honorary Diploma from Maharishi University of Management". Jim Carrey's commencement speech at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield, Iowa, www.iowasource.com. May 24, 2014.

“More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled.”

“I don't know if I'd want to be comforted, if I'm being honest. If I'm being forced to eat soot, I want to know that somewhere else in the world, someone else has to eat soot as well. I want to know that soot tastes terrible. I don't want to be told that soot's good for the digestion. And of course, by soot, I mean beans.”

“There are always protests, whether you do something good or bad. Even if you do something beneficial, people say you do it because it's advertising.”