Jim Carrey's Speech NO ONE Wants To Hear — One Of The Most Eye-Opening Speeches

if you had a day where nobody would recognize you I don't think I'd be that different honestly I dropped the whole trying to be something for somebody a long time ago so I pretty much walk through the world except when I want to be funny or I want to do something outrageous I don't have any trouble being myself and I don't have any trouble saying no when I mean no when uh I don't feel there is a you know pressing uh responsibility to please everyone I'm not unkind to people I love people I would much

prefer saying hello and who are you and what are you doing today than giving a selfie because selfies stop the world you know they stop life you then go like that and it's going on Instagram uh to give people a false sense of relevance people talk about depression all the time the difference between depression and sadness is sadness is just you know from happen stance whatever happened or didn't happen for you or you know grief or whatever it is and depression is your body saying you I don't want to be this character anymore I don't

want to hold up this this Avatar that you've created in the world it's too much for me deep rest your body needs to be depressed it needs deep rest from the character that you've been trying to play I act because I'm broken uh in a lot of pieces and uh acting gives me a chance to reconfigure those pieces into a thousand different things uh that are positive for people to watch was there ever a moment where you first sort of realize like I want to be a performer this is the thing that I want to

do with my life uh there was never any other choice from the time I that there was Consciousness in the body I was uh I was looking at a man named Percy my dad who was the most incredible character that you'd ever meet if if you met him for five minutes you thought you knew him for 50 years and he wrapped everyone that came into our house in stories and jokes and uh I became his calling at a certain point and he was always super behind me but from the first time I can remember him

just lighting up the room you know and him just like wrapping everybody in a story or whatever and and uh going oh that's that's the thing I want to do you know that's that's what I want to be my father could have been a great comedian but didn't believe that that was possible for him and so he made a conservative Choice instead he got a safe job as an accountant and when I was 12 years old he was let go from that safe job and our family had to do whatever we could to survive I

learned many great lessons from my father not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love you know I watched the effect of my father's love and humor and how it altered the world around me and I thought that's something to do that's something worth my time it wasn't long before I started acting up you know people would come over to the house and they'd be greeted by a seven-year-old throwing himself down a large flight of stairs they

would say what happened and I would say I don't know let's check the replay I'd go back to the top of the stairs and come back down in slow motion now fear is going to be a player in your life but you get to decide how much you can spend your whole life imagining ghosts worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what's happening here and the decisions we make In This Moment which are based in either love or fear so many of us choose our path out of fear

disguised as practicality what we really want seems impossibly Out Of Reach and ridiculous to expect so we never dare to ask the universe for it when I was about 28 after a decade as a professional comedian I realized One Night in La that the purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern just like my dad the only one I hadn't freed was myself and that's when my search for identity deepened I wondered who I'd be without my fame who would I be if I said things that people didn't want to hear

or if I defied their expectations of me and that peace that we're after lies somewhere beyond personality beyond the perception of others Beyond invention and disguise even Beyond effort itself you can join the game fight the wars play with form all you want but to find real peace you have to let the armor go your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form risk being seen in all of your glory your job is not to figure out how it's

going to happen for you but to open the door in your head and when the door opens in real life just walk through it and don't worry if you miss your queue cuz there's always doors opening they keep opening and when I say life doesn't happen to you it happens for you I really don't know if that's true I'm just making a conscious choice to perceive challenges as something beneficial so that I can deal with them in the most productive way you you'll come up with your own style that's part of the fun you are

ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors today you will only ever have two choices love or fear Choose Love and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart what's happening right now inside everybody is they're going who am I and they're depressed people go like oh Jim's been depressed and stuff well yeah I was depressed when when I was trying to be The Wizard of Oz but now I know that Oz is a character you know I think everybody deals with that everybody walks

around and they go like why am I depressed well it's because you're trying to be something for the world you know and as soon as you let that go better things happen because they're just happening right it's not uh you know now it's just sadness you know sadness comes happiness comes it's the weather that flies by in the sky it doesn't sit on you long enough to drown you a few months ago I woke up and I suddenly got it I understood suddenly how thought was just an ucer thing and how thought is responsible for

if not all most of the suffering we experience and then I suddenly felt like I was looking at these thoughts from another perspective persective and I wondered who is it that's aware that I'm thinking and suddenly I was thrown into this expansive amazing feeling of freedom from myself from my problems you know when I go to sleep at night I'm not just a guy going to sleep I'm two-time Golden Globe winner Jim Carrey going to get some well- needed shy and when I dream I don't just dream any old dream no sir I dream about

being three-time Golden Globe winning actor Jim Carrey because then I would be [Applause] enough it would finally be true and I could stop this this terrible search for what I know ultimately won't fulfill me [Music]