Jim Carrey – Motivational Speech for 2018
my father could have been a great
comedian but he 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
and when you don’t want so you might as
well take a chance on doing what you
love that piece that we’re after lies
somewhere beyond personality
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whereas I can tell it’s just about
letting the universe know what you want
and working toward it while letting go
of how it comes to pass when I say life
doesn’t happen to you it happens for you
you don’t know
I’m just making a conscious choice to
perceive challenges as something
beneficial so that I can deal with the
most productive way you’ll come up with
your own style that’s part of the fun
like many of you I was concerned about
going out into the world and doing
something bigger than myself until
someone smarter than myself made me
realize that there is nothing bigger
than myself 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
choose love and don’t ever let fear turn
you against your playful heart
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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
the decision to be making this morning
which are based in either law
so many of us choose our path out of
fear disguised as practicality
we really wants him to possibly outreach
and ridiculous to expect so we never
dare to ask the universal I’m saying I’m
the proof
but you can ask the universe
I can tell you from experience the
effect you have on others is the most
valuable currency they’re immunes
yeah I would visualize yeah this is
Reliance welcome for right having
directors interested in me and people
that I respected
saying you know I like your work
whatever that is and and I would
visualize things coming to me that I
wanted or whatever this was in like
nineteen eighty seven eighty five yeah
and I had nothing at that time so it was
like but it just made me feel better it
made me at that time all it really was
for me was kind of making me feel better
I would drive home and think well I do
have these things and they’re out there
I just don’t have ahold of them yet but
they’re out there I wrote myself a check
for ten million dollars for acting
services rendered and I gave myself five
years there were three years maybe and
and I dated at Thanksgiving 1995 and I
put it in my wallet and I kept it there
and it deteriorated and deteriorated and
stuff and and but then just before
Thanksgiving 1995 I found out that I was
gonna make ten million dollars on I
think it’s all a risk but ya know going
on stage would be wonderful I I
I used to you know I did some 15 years
in the comedy clubs before I really
started acting 101 and stand-up it’s
just a PhD of some kind it’s a PhD of
being able to relate to an audience or
sheer cliff yeah yeah you know and then
handling drunks
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this isn’t thing it’s like ‘hey god you
better own it you know whatever it is
you better own it I know you know I
didn’t have this need for stuff I’m
always like afraid almost I like say
prayers you know make sure you know that
I still have something to do here
because well I really believe in the
idea that if you don’t have something to
do here you call well there’s no first
you said something about your parents
that is fascinated me at a certain point
they were just waiting for the end yeah
yeah absolutely lovely people right but
kind of lost heart you know my father
lost his job and that her attrition of
life had taken its toll
yes absolutely and I think at a certain
point they weren’t enjoying it anymore
they weren’t they were just waiting
around
and I saw that early on and I said no
kid I can’t have that I have to break
that cycle
you know I’m fascinated with that myself
and I’m kind of wary of it myself about
my motivations about my
allegiances about what I’m expressing in
the world you know just my day-to-day
contact with people the idea that you
know people come up to me and say I love
you you know I I I try extra hard to
give them energy you know to make it
something that isn’t about me it’s about
them and this moment whatever it is yeah
you know I’m constantly you know trying
to figure out where I’m at and whether
I’m whether I’m corrupting myself or or
not or I probably just you know really
too much about this but it weighs heavy
on me alone I believe in manifestation I
believe in you know putting a rocket of
desire out into the universe and and you
get it when you believe it you get it
when you believe you have it and that’s
the key is like people still they sit
around going when’s it gonna come when
they’re gonna come when’s it gonna come
when’s it gonna come and that’s the
wrong way you’re your face in the wrong
way you’re facing away from it you have
to go it’s here it’s here
I used to open my arms I used to sit up
there you know and open my arms and
imagine a giant funnel of gifts would
come right in the universe
honest to god I you could you know cut
to me there I’m like like this and and
if nothing else it made me feel more
positive about where I was I I drove
down from a Holland Drive every every
night you know that I went up there
feeling that I was one of the biggest
actors in Hollywood
I was doing wonderful work that made
people happy I was you know I owned all
that that was it you know I guess you
know what I own when you think about it
is is my faith that’s what I hope that’s
about it because I started thinking
materially and all those you faith in
yourself or you have faith in some a
thin the universe faith in myself yeah
that’s it that is at the end what you
will that’s the sense so that’s all I
have that you could that’s exactly right
he can strip all the stuff away and
write and if you have that that sense of
age that’s huge and that’s the biggest
that’s what the huge you know for the
most sane mountains move in my life so
I’ve had just endless gifts and they’ve
all been things that I have at some
points at and what and made myself
believe were possible and you did with
the check four years earlier you did yes
right I wrote myself a check when I was
up in a mohel and dry I wrote myself up
a post-dated check Thanksgiving 1995 for
the sum of 10 million dollars and again
it wasn’t about the money it was about
where you are if you want to see anybody
right and what you’re doing because I’ve
examined that all the way along you know
when the oldest 20 million dollar man
business was happening you know I’ve
examined what my motivations are and the
fact is I’m addicted to expressing
myself in in certain ways and and I have
to do it and I would do it if I was
making 20 cents so it’s really about
that especially now I have enough money
to live 20 lives so I I I can’t stop
I’m fascinated by what creates
characters you know what what what
defines people what what creates them
what puts them together everybody’s
Frankenstein and they just like as life
goes on you either you either lose
pieces of yourself gain other pieces and
just that’s the fascinating thing about
acting it’s like somebody like Andy
Kaufman what is it and I stood by his
gravesite you know with his sister and
and and she said one thing to me that
cleared it all up
and that was that Andy was never part of
the club so he created his own club that
no one else could be a part of because I
was fully you know compared to just play
out you know stand-up comedy and comedy
clubs yeah but there’s something within
you that constantly pushed the edges of
the envelope wherever you were well or
at least took advantage of the
opportunities that came around and a lot
of it has to do with you know just the
courage to jump in I mean you know to do
films that are out of your so-called
power Ally as they call it is it takes
nerve you know so I have the nerve you
know and we’ll see if I have the goods
but I have the nerve and yeah
I I’m just excited really about always
changing about crossing me back and
forth across the river and throwing the
hounds off the trail I love that just
whatever you think that just what we
think we’ve got you we know you you’re
off on another route absolutely and if I
feel like I’ve been figured out boy look
out I will become something completely
different you know maybe I might might
not want to become something only
different but Express something
completely different I always felt like
if the world is going crazy I’ll be calm
and if and if they’re calm I’ll be the
one hanging
later
