Jim Carrey Quotes

If you don't mind haunting the margins, I think there is more freedom there.

The idea that you can live off the grid and just do your own thing is a very American idea - that you should be able to do your own thing, if you want to, if you're willing to pay the price for it. I think the price has gotten higher and higher.

I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead.

I can connect with whoever I want to connect with in the world. And I can also write my own script. I don't have to follow rules. I can sort of just be unconventional.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

I don't care much about conforming.

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior or attractive behavior.

I've never joined any organization - not even the ones I've organized myself. I prize my own independence too much.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.

I have a natural tendency to resist conformity.

Everyone talks about, 'Get your foot in the door,' but I never understood that mentality. Why would I want to go in that house? Why not build my own house? Why not take a chair and smash a window?

I was anti-conformist.

I never wanted a traditional lifestyle. I'm not that kind of person.

The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action.

I refuse to live a conventional life.

It's exciting to be able to do something completely independent without anybody challenging it, and it's a big part of the reason why I'm enjoying doing the stand-up comedy, is I'm able to go out and interact with people one-on-one after the show. It's very punk-rock.

I'm a maverick. I've always been a maverick.

My characters aren't losers. They're rebels. They win by their refusal to play by everyone else's rules.

I like to play by my own rules.

I cannot compromise or inhibit my independence.

The same independence that got me into trouble in high school got me praise in college.

For me, the biggest thing with money has always been independence - just the biggest.

I appreciate individualism.

I think I became my own stylist by not knowing any better.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.