Jim Carrey Doesn't Exist

what's the real Jim Carrey like I don't exist they're all characters I'm losing control including Jim Carrey here and I ultimately found what is this that even the me I created wasn't real who the hell is Jim Carrey [Music] you have such an incredible talent for for physical comedy where did that come from desperation desperation I had a sick mom man I wanted to make her feel better I just always felt like like that was my job I had a job at least in my own mind and that was to make my mother feel better

funny people have uh have sick moms generally it's born out of wanting to make somebody feel better what I do is is just to me it's about letting an audience off the hook with life just trying to make people laugh until they cry in my living room come on in for two hours and don't care about anything it's really truly the best job in the world to make people feel good when I was a kid I spent half my time in the living room performing for people spent the other half the time in my bedroom

by myself writing poetry and sketching I was an odd kid because you couldn't punish me I was not the type of kid you could say as a punishment go to your room because my room was Heaven to me yeah I just created a world in there man it was fantastic and I would sit I was a little kid and figure out what it meant I had pad legal pads of this is what the meaning of the universe is [Music] when I was a little kid I would stare into the mirror for hours all the other

kids are out playing and doing whatever my promises promises that I'm I'm trying to you know get Johnny Mathis that's trying to get his voice down you know so that I could have something to bring to the party I mean it was a very self-centered kid because I've done that stuff since I was a little kid I'm staring in the mirror and being the great engineering [Applause] it was so much fun for me to sit in my room and make faces and talk to myself in different voices and and things it was for me it

was all about when are we going to have company again and will I have the show ready to go I used to go up to Mulholland Drive every night sit on the side of the road look out at the lights and and go I'm a popular actor every director wants to work with me I had nothing at that time so it was like it but it just made me feel better and I used to like open my arms and imagine things you know things that I wanted come in my way and stuff I used to

sit up there you know open my arms and imagine a giant funnel of uh of gifts could come right into the universe I would drive home and think well I do have these things and they're out there I just don't have a hold of them yet but they're out there and I actually wrote myself a check and this is for real this is not a joke I wrote a check out to myself for 10 million dollars for acting services rendered for 10 million dollars per picture this is by Thanksgiving 1995. wow look at that this

is the actual don't wreck it so I don't wanna this is simple I guess you know what I own when you think about it is is my faith that's what I own faith in the universe faith in myself yeah I didn't know that Ace Ventura was going to be my shot my guest this evening is currently in the belly of the fame Beast I remember sitting in the in a theater in Westwood during the premiere so there's a hit movie Ace Ventura Pet Detective excuse me gentlemen had to take them I'm so out there in

this movie but that's what people expect from me so so I'm like out of the gate I'm giving them exactly what they expect and when the lights went off and the people applauded and it was an energy that you didn't normally see at a Premiere it was real oh it was real it was real and I felt it and I gotta chill and I said to myself New Life yeah a new phase my first guest star is the number one selling video he's been to a pet detective and also the star Ox office in the

in this very moment the mask please welcome Jim Carrey [Applause] was there ever a moment where you first sort of realized I want to be a performer I was I was looking at a man named Percy my dad my father was the ringleader you know so when I saw him he was always getting the laughs in the living room and he wrapped everyone that came into our house in stories and jokes and they left my house always with pee stains you know I was like wow that's kind of neat being the funny guy and I

think ultimately I imitated my father he was a very funny guy where is he oh man you missed your calling Percy you missed your calling Jim Carrey is Hollywood's hottest comedian but The Man Behind the Mask survived the childhood he'd rather forget your father was a saxophone player and then gave that up to be an accountant I know it's a bad Hollywood script really when they started having children my oldest sister he had to sell a saxophone to get her out of the hospital to pay the bill after 35 years he loses a job as

the accountant then what oh gosh it became clear to me that that there was no safe living there's no safe job I spent you know eight hours after school scraping pubic hairs off urinals and so we decided to just leave that situation with nothing to go to really but when I was about 14 or 15 my father lost his job and I actually became homeless for quite some time we lived on the road in a van for a while after we were in the worst jobs of Our Lives I just went through through a period

where just everything was all security gone like I would say Dad are we by any chance living below the poverty line living in a van you know the whole deal and it made me mad it was not a happy time I became a angry and he'd say no son we're rich as long as we have each other now get in the dumpster [Music] is that talking that you know it was another one of those things that just make you go well you know maybe I'm meant to do what I meant to do you know can

can the star the number one movie in the box office in the entire world at this very moment the mass please welcome Jim Carrey I'm losing control yeah right and I put that mask on I can do anything be anything hello whatever that mask is you don't need it you Stanley ipkiss are already all you'll ever need to be [Music] you love me you really love me [Music] Jim at the height of everything your father died did your father know that you'd made this kind of success what does it mean to him I don't I

don't think he knew the magnitude of it but he realized you know that I had reached my goal yeah he didn't let his father down his lead role in The Mask was something very special for them but he saw that I was I'd done it the thing that he had hoped to do and the thing that he had he had hoped his whole life for me to do my dad passed away but just before he passed away he saw me get to my goal but that little thing in my pocket was realized that's the actual

check I wrote myself four years ago and what happened was basically a few months ago we did the deal for the mask for 10 million dollars just before Thanksgiving 1995 I found out that I was going to make 10 million dollars on payment for doing the mask too I also understand that you put that check that you'd written to yourself in the casket with your father when you pass is that true yeah because it really was his dream too because it was kind of our Dream you know together the mass gave Carrie two big hits

in less than six months Dumb and Dumber looking to make it 3 in 94. Harry's life has been utterly transformed everybody knows me now you know it's uh I got what I wanted and now I have to live with it and if it's a good thing that you got what you wanted after the mask Jim's six-figure film salary went through the roof the comedian turned actor who was reportedly paid 350 000 for Ace Ventura and 450 000 for the mask signed on to Star and Dumb and Dumber for seven million dollars we're talking serious upward

Mobility here he's the only star in history to have three films that ghost over 100 million dollars in one year Terry was finally laughing himself all the way to the bank foreign [Music] fellas box office numbers are often suspect but there is only one conclusion from the financial results of Jim Carrey's movies audiences are buying what he's selling Ace Ventura 72 million dollars fifty percent bigger at 108 million 127 million 119 million 60 million dollar growth and Liar Liar 181 million dollars at the North American box office if you add in the international figures es

gross more than a billion dollars in Jim Carrey's world over the top as no means and now it seems his career knows no bound are you overwhelmed by other things time to go what coming out of that of those three films which grossed all that money somebody you your agent your lawyer says if you look at how much these films did you are looking at the first 20 million dollar man the cable guy you were the first one to get a 20 million dollar movie right that's what they say is there a problem with your

service people do you think they're going to judge you more harshly now knowing they've got the 20 million people rarely take advantage of all my services let me help you wash up audiences didn't embrace it like they did the others what happened with cable guy uh I I like the cable guy a lot Jim Carrey tried a more serious role in the Cable Guy in 1996 and it was his lowest grossing picture I just wanted to be your friend but I think more than anything it was a misconception of what it was going to be

you just need help we all get lonely this is a really gutsy thing for Jim Carrey to do yeah but I get really lonely I certainly don't want to play it safe my whole life I think the danger is that you start patronizing your audience I can be your best friend or your worst enemy you have to take the chance of losing a few people because you do gain others I have more colors than just the ones I've shown so far and Carrie the funniest guy on Earth don't you do something [Music] when I say

how high no I want them to know that it's a choice I don't want to be the kind of human that just interjects with something funny all the time it's important because otherwise you're just a sad person they don't care don't you understand I'm expendable Lord help man get me out 1.7 billion were there for his birth an entire human life recorded on an intricate network of hidden cameras 24 hours a day seven days a week enclosed to the largest Studio ever constructed it's the Truman cell we've become bored with watching actors give us phony

emotions this is the script that I've been thinking my whole life there's nothing fake about Truman himself maybe I'm being set up for something you ever think about that Marlon to play the most famous person on the planet first guess one of the most popular actors in the entire universe was a kind of a natural thing for me to step into if anyone should be used to the world watching their heavy moves it's Jim Carrey like your whole life has been building towards something where shall we go where shall we Jim is in a tornado

of Fame that no one can understand what it would be like to be in there are there any are there any drawbacks to success I want to get away see some of the world explore I guess you know the fact that I never go out anymore because I had all the feelings of paranoia and everything that that go with it at the beginning I think I'm mixed up in something everybody knows everything you do they're pretending to me you know I really hope people enjoy it and I hope they come to it with unprejudiced by

my past I can't imagine being in the middle of that and the challenges that that creates and how it affects your life and how you have to keep sane within it and know that I'm portraying a human being who who is fun to watch but not you know he's not the zany guy he's not a performer he's a prisoner look I'm celebrities like Carrie himself seemed to until side media fishbowls this is a thoughtful entertaining challenging movie about the way the rest of us live right along with them vicariously you've been quiet lately yeah sorry

just focused on the editor come on let's watch a film you've worked so hard today I really should get this done Fantastic Mr Fox the king of comedy uh Birdman [Music] okay what is this it's a movie it's a curated streaming service dedicated to elevated great Cinema from around the globe don't be boring you can't just sit there all day look rotting in the Sun an absurd meta comedy about the intersection between filmmaking and our self-obsessed culture all of these films are hand selected by movies curators in fact movie is for Lovers of Cinema and

for those who don't know they love great Cinema yet okay [Music] and now here you are in The Truman Show so different from anything anybody's ever done I think people have this perception of you as just being the you know funny crazy was it a difficult thing to get people to see you in in serious roles Sylvia The Truman Show was a was a another moment where you know I had to kind of deal with uh well you're not allowed to do that right away people go funny funny funny they think they know me yeah

yeah exactly you get tired of it though I mean if you go to a party does everyone expect you to be the most outrageous person in the room that's the game I don't know why they're saying it's so different for Jim Carrey this would be different for anybody are you going to do more serious things sure well people have preconceived notions but uh you know I think I think it's whether you can do the job or not it really comes down to that if you had a day where nobody would recognize you you know you're

talking about like Jim Carrey the manager and Carrie the performer I dropped the whole trying to be something for somebody a long time ago are you more comfortable as one or the other or is that like are they even mutually exclusive I've examined myself on several occasions I was a little kid why am I really doing this am I doing this because I want to be famous what it was all about why are we here what is this I don't like to sit down for long I don't have any trouble being myself and I don't

have any trouble saying no when I mean no well you might find out who I really am and then it'll all be over what's the real Jim Carrey like I don't exist they're all characters including Jim Carrey I'm losing control [Music] you don't know the real me and at a certain point I realized it's so easy to lose Jim Carrey who the hell is Jim Carrey [Music] Jim Carrey was a less intentional character for it because I thought I was just building something that people would like but it was a character the obvious question here

is no I have to put on a serious turnout so where are you in the middle of this [Music] why am I so blessed why is my life so miraculous I've had just endless gifts and they've all been things that I have at some point sat and made myself believe were possible [Music] sorry that allows such magical things [Music] life has been a dream you know roll the boat gently down the stream hopefully merrily dot dot dot life is but a dream and that's really the truth of it it is a dream you know if

so many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality as if some unseen force is working in my life protecting me guiding me dancing right along with me what we really want seems impossibly Out Of Reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it I guess there's no way to prove it it's just a feeling I have that I'm not alone I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it what about your search for happiness I know you're constantly looking for that one thing that's

going to make you happy I have no depression in my life whatsoever I'm constantly examining myself I probably do it too much I've always over thought everything I have sadness and joy and relation and satisfaction and gratitude beyond belief it was like this kind of Overlook feeling that astronauts get with you you know when they go out into outer space foreign [Music] and you suddenly go like well if I'm so easily pushed aside then who the hell am I in the first place and I ultimately found that even the me I created wasn't real I

uh I'm into expanded consciousness everybody wears a mask the cookie crumbles all wear masks metaphorically speaking we're in the middle of some kind of amazing Cosmic convergence [Music] it's all falling apart I'm everywhere man I'm all around you man two vastly different worlds miraculous we're the star it's a necessity for me to change so I don't know whether it'll be a good change or an acceptable one but I will change [Applause] your job is not to figure out how it's going to happen for you I was wondering do you have a bucket list pretty much

just to burst into a ball of light [Music] but to open the door in your head [Music] say something God damn it you're on television you're live to the whole world and when the door opens in real life in case I don't see you good afternoon good evening and good night just walk through it [Music] none of this is going to matter 100 years they'll never remember you know whatever it won't matter so just have fun let's have a blast hi thanks for choosing to watch this video we've worked really hard on it I'm just

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