Jim Carrey Quotes

I feel like I want to take care of everyone and I also feel this terrible guilt if I am unable to. And I have felt this way ever since all this success started.

I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.

I hate disappointing people and letting people down.

I felt I had to solve everyone's problems.

I'm somebody who, if I went to the grocery store, and one of them wasn't with me, I would feel guilty. I would be like, 'I shouldn't be doing anything without them, anytime, ever.' A very codependent way of thinking. Also, motherhood is hugely about guilt.

Motherhood is like a big sleeping bag of guilt.

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.

I remember, playing in college especially, I cried in almost every game I played. I just felt so much stress and pressure that I was letting everyone down if I didn't score a goal or win the game. I carried that weight with me into every game.

It's easy to let yourself down - it's tough to let other people down.

What a fearful object a long-neglected duty gets to be

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

It's a big issue for me - feeling like I should be helping every person who asks for something or who has a problem.

Mothers always find ways to fit in the work - but then when you're working, you feel that you should be spending time with your children and then when you're with your children, you're thinking about working.

The thought of having the expectations of the whole country on my shoulders worried and unnerved me.

By imposing too great a responsibility, or rather, all responsibility, on yourself, you crush yourself.

On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least.

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me.

I'm trying to avoid, you know, guilt, even though before the child is born, you're already thinking you're doing things wrong... Why do I think that will probably carry over until the day you die?

I think, as most of us do, I put such high expectations on myself that this spills over onto other people. And not everyone is wired this way. Some people can shrug expectations off their shoulders like a cardigan, remaining cool and breezy. Others wear them like a parka with a stuck zipper, hot and stifling.

The scariest thing in my life is the first morning of production on all my movies. It's the fear of failing, the loss of face, and a sense of guilt that everybody puts their faith in you and not coming through.

I do feel pressure. I have always been able to surprise people because they didn't know to expect anything from me. And now people are starting to have expectations.

For 25 years, I did take my responsibilities as a pleaser of others sufficiently seriously.

I'm actually constantly a bit nervous because I never want to disappoint anyone, you know?

I tend to be overly responsible for other people's feelings.

I actually believed if I behaved myself and if I made straight A's and if I was good enough, I could save my dad's life. And every single time he had a heart attack, I knew what I had done that caused it.