Jim Carrey Quotes

Remember who you really are and be that.

I think that some people like to be someone other than themselves when acting, while others are most themselves. I fall into the second camp. For me, acting is a great exercise in getting to the truth about myself.

O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!

What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.

Many people feel their outer self isn't the whole self.

I'm still trying to find out who Paula Cole is. I always am - and I always will be - my real, inside self, which has no name.

Life is not a matter of creating a special name for ourselves, but of uncovering the name we have always had.

The Truth is inseparable from who you are. Yes, you are the Truth. If you look for it elsewhere, you will be deceived every time.

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you?

The secret is to have a sense of yourself, your real self, your unique self. And not just once in a while, or once a day, but all through the day, the week and life.

The soul is the truth of who we are.

You know, then that the public Somebody you are when you 'have a name' is a fiction created with mirrors and that the only somebody worth being is the solitary and unseen you that existed from your first breath

Your true image is not something to get; it is a reality to discover.

It is when I am working that the real me comes out - that is when I am the most real and honest.

The real rub is finding that authentic self and it's not something that's going to come to you overnight.

At a point in every person's life, one has to look deeply into the mirror of one's soul and decide one's unique truth in the world, not as we may want to see it or hope to see it, but as it is.

Tear man out of his outward circumstances; and what he then is; that only is he.

If there's a common thread to my books, it is that each involves an individual's journey. The individual must stay true to themselves.

I never really did abandon my true self. It's not like I invented this imaginary person and started to be her.

I don't think people know me at all. At the end of the day, if you see me in sequins and glitter out at a club, you might think that's all there is. But, you know, it's just glitter. My friends who I've known since I was 17 - they know who I am.

The mystery at the center of 'Burial Rites' is not who killed whom on the night of March 13, 1828. It is the mystery each of us encounters: Can we every truly know another? Can we ever truly know ourselves?

We can never see who someone really is underneath the skin.

Be that self which one truly is.

A lot of people go on this journey of finding themselves and then eventually realize that their true self wasn't on the outside but it's always been there.