Jim Carrey is an interesting distorted reflection for me. Due to time of life and circumstance we’re very similar. The same was once true of Robin Williams. I thought he had gotten out. The end bit where Jim is depersonalizing, realizing that even Jim Carrey is a character he plays, that’s where I was awhile ago.
I didn’t realize his life started where it did, in homelessness and despair, and who he was is someone he became for survival. A role he had to play, I can relate.
The transformation is what causes a lot of emotion in me. How who he was inside changed, he seems to be trying to be more authentic and accurate to himself. I was trying for that, and someday I hope I get to try for that again.
You just can’t get that high up without it screwing you up. My parents refused the promotions, they didn’t want to go into management and they didn’t want me in management. They definitely didn’t want me to chase acting or comedy as a career path. So I didn’t.
Yet people still say I’m funny. Most of the time I’m saying things that are quite matter of fact and horrible, but people like hearing horrible things.
They mentioned the Grinch, and I always related to that character the most. All he wanted was to get out of Whoville, and just when he had they played louder music. The lesson of that story is to move further away.
Well, that is excepting the time he came back for revenge;