Jim Carrey Quotes

We all go a little mad sometimes.

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad.

It's true that Blake was emotionally disturbed - always has been - but he doesn't have murder in his heart. If he was going to do any damage to anything or anyone, it would be to himself.

... fluctuating emotions ... [lead] us to excesses of both intervention and abdication.

I have lived one step away from losing my mind for years. I am quick and accurate in spotting unstable streaks in others.

Raving mad is quite easy. You just chew up the scenery or something. It's quiet mad that's hard.

If I have not lost my mind I can sometimes hear it preparing to defect

I'm a Crank. I'm slowly going crazy. I keep wanting to chew off my own fingers and randomly kill people.

I think I am mad sometimes.

If he were a man of strong mind, it only gave him fits; but a person of mere average intellect it usually sent mad.

All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. That's how far the world is from where I am. Just one bad day.

Tally, do you ever suffer from sudden flashes of anger or euphoria, countersocial impulses, or feelings of superiority?

If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.

It's really scary when you have a moment of temporary sanity.

For me, the first sign of oncoming madness is that I'm unable to write.

Occasionally, I go off the rails. I once nearly killed somebody once - it wasn't funny. I am a lunatic. The pressure of work, the pressure - everyone has a stop valve, and I don't have one.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty.

Knowing that you're crazy doesn't make the crazy things stop happening.

Lucretius was passionate, and much more in need of exhortations to prudence than Epicurus was. He committed suicide, and appears to have suffered from periodic insanity - brought on, so some averred, by the pains of love or the unintended effects of a love philtre.

They've lost their minds.

That's the terrible part. I swear to God I'm a madman.

[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.

How crazy craziness makes everyone, how irrationally afraid. The madness hidden in each of us, called to, identified, aroused like a lust. And against that the jaw sets. The more I fear my own insanity the more I must punish yours.

The plain truth, I may as well admit it, is that I've never been really right in the head.