Jim Carrey

format_quote It is better to risk starving to death than surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

stars  Many of his characters are ordinary men whose lives are changed by supernatural or otherwise unseen forces. As in The Mask (1994) (" (Ipkiss happens to find the mask), The Majestic (2001) (Appleton is unlucky and suffers amnesia), Liar Liar (1997) (His son's birthday wish comes true), Bruce Almighty (2003) (Divine intervention), The Truman Show (1998) (He finds his life is a TV show), and so on.

stars  Has said that his least favorite movie is The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969).

stars  Bought a Harley Davidson motorcycle and got a vanity license plate for it which read "NO TAG" as a joke. This resulted in Jim receiving numerous traffic tickets in the mail that were meant for other people. As it turns out, when filling out a ticket, police officers write "no tag" in the license plate number slot on the ticket when the offending vehicle has no license plate. In some cases, this was interpreted as the actual license plate number, as it was in Jim's case, which caused the tickets to be routed to him.

stars  Ranked #54 in Empire (UK) magazine's "The Top 100 Movie Stars of All Time" list. (October 1997)

stars  Went through depression in the 1980s while struggling to make ends meet as a comedian.