Hope you’re doing just fine.
Since Jim Carrey never posts any greetings to his fans I thought it would be sooo much fun to give you all a very recent interview to read about him!
My twinsister bought this Swedish magazine called “Pause”, No. 1 March 2006, for me a couple of days ago as it said “Exclusive interview with Jim Carrey” on the cover as well. The interview is made by Monika Agorelius.
It’s such a openhearted, funny and sweet at the same time interview I think! He sounds genuinly happy, and that’s really all that matters!
And I’m so happy for him that he has found a way to get rid of the paparrazzis ‘cause everyone deserves their private time!
I hope you all will enjoy this interview as much as I did (also because it took a while for me to translate it into English again… hehe
), have a continued great weekend everyone, and hope this interview made your day! 
Take care!
All the best,
Ann
P.S. I’ve cut directly to the interview ‘cause some things was just describing in the beginning and it weren't only kind words, and as he’s gotten enough crap from people as it is already I didn’t see the point in posting that too. Oh, and the pages that the interview was on just included pictures from Fun with Dick and Jane, so it was no new exclusive photos or anything. D.S.
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J.C. – I think Gable Guy is my best film, it’s underestimated. It doesn’t have the world’s happiest ending, but I dig it, says the comedian with a smile when I meet him in London.
M.A. – Your new movie, Fun with Dick and Jane, is about a couple who can’t imagine living anything else than the top luxury life. How is your own relationship with money?
J.C. – Pretty normal, I think. I’ve never been concerned about the economy, not even when I was young and my family had it so bad under a period that we lived in a trailer and ate cheap burgers for dinner. I drove my first wife to insanity when I didn’t care about the money. When the money ran out and she started to wine I just shrug my shoulders , like “It’s going to work out”. And you know, it always did too.
M.A. – Now you make an insane amount of money. For Bruce Almighty you got 25 million dollars. What do you do with them?
J.C. – I am pretty boring, I invest in different ways, and give a whole lot to charity. It is a weird concept, money. When you have a lot of cash it just becomes an extra amount of zeros on a paper. I haven’t become a highroller since I became rich. I have enough money to do what I want to when I spontaneously feel like it – but I seldom have time to do what I spontaneously feel like doing.
M.A. – Can you buy your friends?
J.C. – I’m sure you can. When you’re poor you don’t get any friends because you’re the guy who never treats people to drinks at a bar. When you’re rich you don’t get any friends ‘cause the ones who goes out with you always expect you to pay.
M.A. – When you say your name you get mixed reactions, you’re either loved or hated.
J.C. – I understand that my humour isn’t appreciated by everyone, I can be rather extreme sometimes. But due to the fact that my movies draws a huge audience it’s plenty of people who likes what I do and that’s good. I enjoy myself when I have a camera in my face. I’ve always loved to put on a show and my background as a stand up comedian have helped me when I’m going to do comedy on film.
M.A. – Which is the best movie you’ve ever seen?
J.C. – Network. When that movie came out 1976 it showed a trend about how currupted media might become. Now, thirty years later we’ve passed all the boundaries a long time ago. Media have way too much power and the way to deliver news becomes more and more governed by propaganda from those in power. In the U.S.A. the TV-networks is owned by the presidents friends.
M.A. – What do you watch on TV?
J.C. – I watch a lot of Discovery Channel, I like to see interesting programs that I can learn something from, about history, animals and nature. MTV is often on at home too. And South Park, that show is hysterically funny.
M.A. – What makes you laugh in ordinary life?
J.C. – How people behave in the company of others. It it is very, very funny when a person tries to look good infront of someone else and makes a fool of himself. Like for instance when a muscular man try to look so cool infront of some gorgeous, giggling girls and he suddenly falls of a horse. Or something like that. Then I laugh.
M.A. – What music gets you going?
J.C. – Everything from Missy Elliot to The White Stripes to the Bee Gees and jazz. My father played the clarinett and I was raised with bigband jazz. My daughter is also down with jazz and when she comes home to me she goes directly and puts on a Miles Davis-album. That’s cool, I think, most teenagers have probably never listened to jazz, but my daughter loves it.
M.A. – Do you remember your first concert?
J.C. – Yes, me and some buddies went from Toronto, where we lived, to Buffalo in the U.S.A. to see Black Sabbath and Van Halen. I was 12, or something, and it was an awesome experience. It was when Ozzy respectively Dave Lee Roth was the lead singers and both groups had their peak then.
M.A. – What do you sing in the shower?
J.C. – Led Zeppelin-songs. But nevermind about singing, above all I fight in the shower! I get my aggressions out with starting up a fight with imaginary figures and then I punch them in the face if I feel like it. I play both parts in these confrontations. You look a bit shocked, haha? I seem crazy to you? That may be true, but try it and you’ll see, to scream “Go to hell you bastard!” and pretend to give out punches is good for the mentality. Haha, yeah!
M.A. – Eeeh, ok. What would you do if you where God for a day, like in your movie Bruce Almighty?
J.C. – Make sure I wouldn’t have to irritate myself on everyday things. When it comes to work I am camn about most things, if you take the day as it comes everything falls into place. But at home it’s a total different turf really. I can become insanly angry when the milk isn’t on the right place in the refrigerator! Or when someone has squeezed the wrong place on the toothpaste. If I were God I’d make sure I wouldn’t get fits over such things.
M.A. – How do you avoid being hunted down by the paparrazzis and celebrityhorny people?
J.C. – It doesn’t bother me to become recognized, people are pretty soft. Furthermore I always go roller skating and there’s no one who expects to see a famous actor on roller skates. I go everywhere, wherever I’m going, no matter what the weather is. You get there fast and that’s nice. The other day I went to see the Big Ben and then further down the Themse. SO cool, the only thing you have to look out for is the cobble stones. Another thing that’s great is that the paparrazzis don’t check up on a celebrity that travels like this and not in a damn limousine. I can be completely anonymous.
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