Actor Jim Carrey shared a personal story with reporters just as his career was taking off.
Carrey once wrote a check to himself for $10 million, “for acting services rendered,” and slipped it in his wallet as a motivational tool.
Years later, he would cash checks twice that size, thanks to the heady mix of capitalism and Hollywood excess.
Now, Carrey isn’t as enamored with the system that made him filthy rich (hat tip: S.T. Karnick at Big Hollywood).
Carrey recently told The Chicago Tribune why his new “Disney’s A Christmas Carol” is the right movie for our times:
“Every construct we’ve built in American life is falling apart. Why? Because of personal greed and ambition. Capitalism without regulation can’t protect us against personal greed.”
It must be a breeze to slam greed when your bank account has all those sparkly zeroes.
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Is a bit hypocritical to slam people for ambition when you wrote yourself a $10 million check.
Carrey is very symptomatic of Hollywood in general. He broke out precisely because he was so different and outlandish, that’s what got him paid, and he abruptly abandoned it all for dramatic glory and prizes. His audience gave him everything, he’s given them nothing since.
Maybe denouncing greed, capitalism and all that is an attempt to ape Will Ferrell. Manboy knows Tinsel Town has no love for the funny man, so he attacks as many of the proper targets as possible. Maybe Carrey is catching on.
I wish I could afford to slam greed.
Wow, I had no idea that “Dumb and Dumber” was a biography of Jim Carrey.
Might I suggest this link to the Daily Beast about Carrey forming his own religion…..it’s no joke……..and a new company.
“Global Alliance for Transformational Entertainment”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-06-11/jim-carrey-almighty/
A quote from Carrey…
“Suddenly I was thrown into this expansive, amazing feeling of freedom—from myself, from my problems. I saw that I was bigger than what I do. I was bigger than my body. I was everything and everyone. I was no longer a fragment of the universe—I was the universe.”
What’s more disturbing is the number of people who attended the first meeting.
If Jenny McCarthy is a believer … count me in