thought provoking

[4woody]

I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that had already happened. And the shift was, ‘Wait a second. If I can put Jim Carrey aside for four months, who is Jim Carrey? Who the hell is that?’ ... I know now he does not really exist. He’s ideas. ... Jim Carrey was an idea my parents gave me. Irish-Scottish-French was an idea I was given. Canadian was an idea that I was given. I had a hockey team and a religion and all of these things that cobble together into this kind of Frankenstein monster, this representation. It’s like an avatar. These are all the things I am. You are not an actor, or a lawyer. No one is a lawyer. There are lawyers, law is practiced, but no one is a lawyer. There is no one, in fact, there.”

— Jim Carrey

[Hidden]

Hello woody,

You are doing my head in, who are you, is your Birth Name Jim Carrey ? or is this a non __Deplume.

BOB

[4woody in reply to Hidden]

😉 enjoy

[fauxartist]

Jim Carrey suffers greatly with his depression, and that is the case with many comedians interestingly. Good actors do immerse themselves into their characters, but getting lost into the character is the razors edge between genius and insanity. It's a fine line that defines a really good actor who can become a chameleon and take on a totally different persona, and then there are character actors who differ very little from their real life personas. I find that creative people are often those of us who have mental injury, emotional, physical, or a predisposition biologically. We feel more, see more, smell more, so we are able to express ourselves more. That's an artist...

There is a documentary I recently watched that expressed that chameleon like ability of this SNL comedian, but it drove him to the extent of not having to deal with his mental injury he suffered from child abuse, he buried it, his child mind could not process the evil he had survived…and eventually it drove him to extremes…I felt for him every step of the way, I too have had recent breakthroughs from my own child abuse…and it is stunning, frightening, angering, and healing.

[4woody in reply to fauxartist]

I share this recovery process. it is all those things you list. and helpful.