Jim Carrey
Canada's Walk of Fame lists Jim Carrey among its honorees, a recognition that marks his standing within Canadian cultural life. Carrey has also received Golden Globe Awards and multiple MTV Movie Awards, including honors for Best Breakthrough Performance, Best Male Performance, Best Kiss, and Best Comedic Performance, reflecting a career spanning comedy, film, and television.
Carrey was born on January 17, 1962, in Newmarket, and holds citizenship in both Canada and the United States. He attended several schools in Ontario, among them Aldershot School, Blessed Trinity Catholic School, Northview Heights Secondary School, and Agincourt Collegiate Institute. His professional work encompasses acting in film, television, and voice roles, as well as stand-up comedy, screenwriting, and film producing. He has also practiced painting alongside these pursuits, and he works in the English language across all of them.
Recognition of Carrey's work has extended beyond North America. France conferred on him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres at the rank of Chevalier, an honor acknowledging contributions to the arts. That distinction, alongside his placement on Canada's Walk of Fame, situates Carrey within two separate national frameworks of cultural recognition — one rooted in the country where he was born and educated, and one reflecting the reach of his work into European cultural institutions.
Quotes by Jim Carrey
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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.
It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left.
There are peaks, there are valleys. But they're all kind of carved and smoothed out, and it feels like a low level of despair you live in. Where you're not getting any answers, but you're living OK. And you can smile at the office. You know? But it's a low level of despair.
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.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which is that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.
Flowers don't worry about how they're going to bloom. They just open up and turn toward the light and that makes them beautiful.
I feel like I’ve lived the dream for sure, I’m the luckiest guy in the world and I never forget that. I always feel like I’m proof of positive thought and manifestation, and that faith is more important than talent. But if you have both you’re really doing something.
I’ve often said that I wished people could realize all their dreams of wealth and fame so they could see that it’s not where you’ll find your sense of completion.
My career has been in a weird kind of like low-flying under the radar-kind of place. I never made it on “Saturday Night Live” where all my friends did.