absolutely connected we are if I
Took my hand and put a nice through right now. You know you would feel it [someway] emotionally you would feel it
You know it's like. There's no question about it to me so everything
We do to each other or everything we've seen each other's as seeing ourselves I
Did stand up in the clubs for 15 years?
But it's never too [late] to make your mark you [may] have to quit for a while and sell some paint
But you don't have to give up your dream
For me it was it was so much fun to me to sit in my room and make faces and talk to myself in different
voices
I think everybody's looking for something that they already have
I
Mean I got a lot of support from my parents
That's the one thing that I always appreciate it, or is that they didn't tell me I [was] being stupid
They told me I was being funny Mm-hmm. That was a difference
Now when you go through a few of those
Experiences, [you] kind of develop a thick skin when [it] comes to being ridiculed or whatever why don't you give it up? I?
Couldn't I I mean I don't have a trait
The fact that we were already enlightened
We're already complete
And it's just realizing that you're complete
Once you realize you're complete and then this life and everything in it becomes a play of form
something to toy with and play with and make something good out of and
And really isn't to be worried about it's to have fun with
Anything that doesn't work out any show that I might not get any any
Show that [I] might do that doesn't turn out well gets pulled off or something like that. [I] always think of as
This is the way it was [supposed] to be that's the way it was [supposed] to happen because there's something bigger down the road
There's something better down the road and that and this is happening because I'm not ready or you know and it's always happened that way
you know at some point you have to
Divorce yourself from the things that other people want for you
[A]
True thing that we believe walking through our lives. I'm not worthy. I'm not lovable. I'm going to fail whatever your basic
mistaken belief about yourself is
You form a personality around
You no, it's the grain of sand in the oyster, so I form characters that way a lot of times. I'll ask myself
What's what's the speck of sand?
Luckily I got fame and I got wealth so that I could scratch it off the list of things that would fulfill me
so I accept the fact that I fail you know because I know that it's that's the way it's supposed to be I
was born in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada
As you entered your teens your life changed radically?
my father lost his job when I was he was 51 [as] about 12 and
That was really the traumatic
Wow kicking the guts. [you] [said] we went from lower middle class to complete poverty Mm-hmm. Yeah, we lived in a van
I mean the first time I ever went to yuk yuk's when I was 15 years old, and I went there and
And I was not good it was [alright]. I went down there with Dad
Got up on [stage] and and I didn't go back for two years
And then my father said when I was 17, I started doing little shows here and there again
And he said why don't you go back to us. [I] said no way
I want to go back there, and he said you know you should get [over] it. I mean if you if you're Gonna
Going to go into the business
and you want to do it seriously you can't have those barriers you [know] and
I went back
And I [did] great, and I what became a regular and a headliner and and it built from there
And then when I went down to Los angeles the same thing happened
Did you write yourself a check yes? I made my check. Which was just basically
You know ten million dollars to Jim Carrey for acting Services rendered dated Thanksgiving 1995?
I gave myself five
years
one of the most successful working actors to be given the best material and the best scripts things that people would never
Expect in a million years that I could do I
put the check in my father's pocket in his casket because it was his dream to and he followed me the whole time and and
It was kind of a completion of that. He saw the mask he saw this happen to me and
Delicate people's you know who's his as well. So give it to him. [I] have had to
risk
Losing popularity risk losing people's acceptance
Again lucky to do something. That's a [little] bit different. You know
I don't ever want to be nailed down and I want to tell stories
I want to tell a wide range of stories and be able to look back from day and go how some of them are really
Original really different you [know], and I still haven't got done what I want to do. You know you know what it is