Jim Carrey's income for what he does makes ME depresed

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

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[Eurobabe]

1. Jim Carrey for what he does, makes me depressed

Overrated, overpaid actor.

He was at his finest as Fire Marshall Bill on in Living Color.

PS. Lauren Holly and Rene Zellwegger second that comment.

[Selwynn]

10. He was fabulous in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Frankly, I think he's a bit underrated for movies like Truman Show and Eternal Sunshine.

[babylonsister]

2. I wish I was as untalented as he, so I could be

depressed making all that moola. But I think he's funny as hell, naturally.

[Ilsa]

3. I don't care for him.

His over-acting gets on my nerves. After hearing how he treated women, I became even less enchanted with him. His name on a marquee is a disincentive for me to see a movie.

[deutsey]

4. He was ok in "In Living Color", even though he annoyed me then, too

I think I've only been able to watch one of his movies all the way through (Grinch), and that's because I was sort of trapped with my kids who wanted to see it.

I wouldn't say he lacks talent; I think he just needs to bring his over-the-top acting down a few notches.

[ProfessorGAC]

9. It's More Than A Disincentive For Me

I loathe his work. I will not watch anything he's in. Cartoon character with a real heartbeat.
The Professor

[mondo joe]

16. I feel the same way, but Eternal Sunshine is good DESPITE Carrey

I swear, no one can find him less appealing than I do.

But Eternal Sunshine was worth tolerating Carrey.

[ProfessorGAC]

17. I Just Can't

I'll take your word for it, but my TV is a "no Carrey zone". My loathing runs that deep. I will just trust you and know that i'm missing an otherwise good movie.
The Professor

[eyesroll]

5. Watch "The Truman Show" or "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind"

I can't stand the Ace Ventura stuff, but those two are great movies, and great performances.

[revolve]

6. Just a question

Have you seen Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. If not please stop commenting on his lack of acting ability.

[Flammable Materials]

7. Agreed.

I was absolutely impressed by that film.

[SCDem]

8. I feel the same as all the posts above

except that I did watch 60 minutes Sunday night and it did remind me that he is human and does have feelings too. I thought it was a great interview and made me want to maybe give him a break.

[Lancer]

11. Illnesses of ANY kind do not discriminate between

rich and poor. Look at Lou Gehrig. Look at Michael J. Fox. Look at Ronald Reagan.

I've already preached about my own battles with bipolar disorder on another thread, and while it and other mood disorders affect people of every social strata, we tend to hear about them more when they affect the well-known. And I thank them for bringing the severity of such illnesses into the public forum. Maybe their forthrightness will help further the battle to destigmatize mental illness.

Mood disorders also overwhelmingly tend to afflict creative minds:

FAMOUS PEOPLE WITH DEPRESSION & OTHER MOOD DISORDERS

KEY:
H = Asylum or psychiatric hospital
S = Suicide
SA = Suicide Attempt

WRITERS
Hans Christian Andersen
Honore de Balzac
James Barrie
William Faulkner (H)
F. Scott Fitzgerald (H)
Ernest Hemingway (H,S)
Hermann Hesse (H, SA)
Henrik Ibsen
Henry James
William James
Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
Joseph Conrad (SA)
Charles Dickens
Isak Dinesen (SA)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Herman Melville
Eugene O'Neill (H, SA)
Mary Shelley
Robert Louis Stevenson
Leo Tolstoy
Tennessee Williams (H)
Mary Wollstonecraft (SA)
Virginia Woolf (H, S)

COMPOSERS
Hector Berlioz (SA)
Anton Bruckner (H)
George Frederic Handel
Gustav Holst
Charles Ives
Gustav Mahler
Modest Mussorgsky
Sergey Rachmaninoff
Gioacchino Rossini
Robert Schumann (H, SA)
Alexander Scriabin
Peter Tchaikovsky

NONCLASSICAL COMPOSERS AND MUSICIANS
Irving Berlin (H)
Noel Coward
Stephen Foster
Charles Mingus (H)
Charles Parker (H, SA)
Cole Porter (H)

POETS
William Blake
Robert Burns
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Hart Crane (S)
Emily Dickinson
T.S. Eliot (H)
Oliver Goldsmith
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Victor Hugo
Samuel Johnson
John Keats
Vachel Lindsay (S)
James Russell Lowell
Robert Lowell (H)
Edna St. Vincent Millay (H)
Boris Pasternak (H)
Sylvia Plath (H, S)
Edgar Allan Poe (SA)
Ezra Pound (H)
Anne Sexton (H,S)
Percy Bysshe Shelley (SA)
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dylan Thomas
Walt Whitman

ARTISTS
Dora Carrington (S)
Richard Dadd (H)
Thomas Eakins
Paul Gauguin (SA)
Vincent van Gogh (H, S)
Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (H, S)
Edward Lear
Michelangelo
Edvard Munch (H)
Georgia O'Keeffe (H)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti (SA)

POLITICAL LEADERS (partial list)
Winston Churchill
Abraham Lincoln

CONFIRMED BIPOLARS
Idi Amin, former dictator
Patty Duke (Anna Pearce), actor, writer
Connie Francis, singer
Peter Gabriel, musician
Charles Haley, athlete (Dallas Cowboys)
Kristy McNichol, actor
Spike Mulligan, comic actor
Abigail Padgett, mystery writer
Murray Pezim, financier (Canada)
Charley Pride, musician
Axl Rose, musician
Ted Turner, entrepreneur, media giant (U.S.)
Robin Williams, actor, comedian

CONFIRMED UNIPOLARS
Roseanne Arnold, actor, writer, comedienne
Dick Cavett, writer, media personality
Tony Dow, actor, director
Kitty Dukakis, former Massachusetts first lady
William Styron, writer
James Taylor, musician
Mike Wallace, news anchor

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

12. Here's one more not on your list

Woody Guthrie (H, SA)

[Ilsa]

13. I didn't see any interview with him. Is he bipolar?

Does he have another mood disorder? If so, I feel sympathy for him. But that doesn't mean I have to like going to see his movies. Maybe I can catch that other movie. I don't question his talent; I just haven't enjoyed all of his performances.

[Zuni]

14. not bipolar but have an anxiety disorder

and I thank people that help us remove the stigma

[mondo joe]

15. Jim Carrey's depressed? Good thing there isn't real news!

Jim Carrey's depressed?

Good thing there isn't any REAL news to be reported on - you know, wars, vote suppression, things like that - otherwise TV news wouldn't be able to carry this interview!