Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond (2017)

Jim Carrey: Self

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• Jim Carrey : I learned that you can fail at what you don't love, so you might as well do what you love.

• Jim Carrey : Where did this character come from? What is the dirt that the pearl is built around? And the pearl is the personality that you build around yourself as a protection against that thought: "If they ever find out that I'm worthless, if they ever find out that I'm not enough, I'll be destroyed".

• Jim Carrey : At some point when you create yourself to make it, you're going to have to either let that creation go and take a chance on being loved or hated for who you really are, or you're going to have to kill who you really are and fall into your grave grasping a character you never were.

• [producer] : So, Jim...

  Jim Carrey : Yes?

  [producer] : How would you start this movie?

  Jim Carrey : Hm...

  [pauses] 

  Jim Carrey : Well, if I had my choice, it wouldn't start at all. It would already have been. And it wouldn't end either.

  [smiles] 

• Jim Carrey : I've stepped through the door, and the door is the realization that this, us, is Seaside. Its the dome, this is the dome. This isn't real. This is a story. There is the avatar you create, and the cadence you come up with, that is pleasing to people, and takes them away from their issues, and it makes you popular, and then at some point you have to peel it away. And, you know, it's not who you are. At some point you have to live, you know, your true man. You know Truman Show really became a prophecy for me. It is constantly reaffirming itself as a teaching almost, as a real representation of what I've gone through in my career, and what everyone goes through when they create themselves, you know, to be popular or successful. And it's not just show business. It's Wall Street, it's anywhere. You go to the office and you put a monkey suit on, and you act a certain way, say a certain thing, and lie through your teeth at times, and you do whatever you need to do to look like a winner, you know. And at some point of your life, you have to go, "I don't care what it looks like." You know, "I found the hole in the psyche and I'm going through, and I'm going to face the abyss of not knowing whether that's gonna be okay with everybody or not," you know. And at times, just like the movie, they try to drown you in the middle of that abyss. They go, "No, be the other guy. You told us you were this guy. You told us you were Andy. You told us you were Tony Clifton." You know, no one can live with that forever.

• Jim Carrey : How far should I take this? How far would Andy take it?

• Courtney Love : [chanting with crowd]  DO LATKA! DO LATKA!

  Jim Carrey : Here's Latka's ass.

  [he bends over] 

• [imitating director Milos Forman] 

  Jim Carrey : I have never been intimidated by another man, and I am intimidated by Tony Clifton!

• Jim Carrey : You stepped through the door not knowing what's on the other side and on the other side is everything. You know, everything.

• Jim Carrey : I didn't know who I was anymore when the movie was over. I didn't know what my politics were. I couldn't remember what I was about. Suddenly I was so unhappy, and I realized that I was back in my problems. I was back in my heartbreak. And suddenly I thought to myself, "You felt so good when you were being Andy." 'Cause you were free from yourself. You were on vacation from Jim Carrey." You stepped through the door not knowing what's on the other side, and what's on the other side is everything. You know, everything. There's a feeling of relief from this vehicle that's traveling through space, trying to, like, grasp onto stuff, like fucking countries, and religions, and... uh... And I find it all so abstract. Why am I an American? Why am I a Canadian? What is that? What does that mean? Somebody put a line down and said, "This is that." You know, uh... You know, we're so much more. Then we, like, are born into a family, so we're told what our family name is. And then your parents choose a name, and they say, "Your name will be Joel. It means the... awesomeness of Yahweh," you know. "And you have to live up to that, dude, and, uh, we're counting on you not to make us look bad. And you're gonna go to Harvard, and you're gonna be a doctor, and you're gonna be-- And by the way, you're a Catholic, or you're a Jew, or you're, you know, whatever you are." It's like everything is so... are these abstract structures that you're given, and it's supposed to hold you together somehow, you know. And I've just given 'em up, you know. I don't need to be held together. I'm fine just floating through space like Andy. You know, just... flying 6,000 miles an hour around the sun. You know. Balancing on tectonic plates that are floating on lava. You know, ready for the end times to occur and whatever the hell is gonna happen. I'm just great. That's all great. That's all great. You're on a spiritual journey, period, and we're all gonna end up in the same place, if there is such a thing. And maybe there isn't. Maybe there's just this and that's it. There's me and the teacup, that's it. There's us. We're the universe, man. I like that, that's fine.