Jim Carrey Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which, was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love

  Jim Carrey

  Father, Doing What You Love, Lessons

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

• I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

  Jim Carrey

  Dream, Father, Dumb

• My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him, and so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. When I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want, so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.

  Jim Carrey

  Letting Go, Jobs, Father

  "Jim Carrey's inspiring commencement speech" by Lisa Respers France, www.cnn.com. May 28, 2014.

• I'd like to thank my mother, my father, the Academy. I'm sorry. I was thinking of something else.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Sorry, Father

• My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig.

  Jim Carrey

  Father, Pigs, Ham

  Commencement Speech at Maharishi University of Management, www.mum.edu. May 24, 2014.

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